Tag: speculation
If we can't prove that speculation drives food prices, should we regulate it anyway?
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If we can’t prove that speculation drives food prices, should we regulate it anyway?
One of my more wonk-mind-blowing moments last year was refereeing a debate about financial speculation and commodity prices between Oxfam’s Rob Nash and a UK Treasury wonk who wished to remain nameless. I couldn’t understand either of them (even by international development standards, the language is really weird – try ‘contango’ or ‘backwardation’). I tried […]
Read More »Food and Finance: a little less speculation, a little more action please…
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Global price chaos – is another food crisis on the way?
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The UN lays into finance, speculation and the IMF: UNCTAD's Trade and Development Report 2009
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