And that applies similarly to food….This past week there have been a couple of news items announcing that a large petition by “450 economists” wants to limit global food commodity speculation which is causing high food prices for the world’s poor food consumer. Since I just posted, Round Two. Does Speculation Cause High Food Prices? [...]
They’ve been pouring across my desk lately, the seemingly credible main stream news and high level PDF studies proclaiming that the global food commodity prices are being driven by speculation. Since my March 2011 post, Are Speculators to Blame for High Food Commodity Prices? No, and this Explains Why, has anything changed? Where is all [...]
photo: flickr In this post, I have the good fortune of having permission to use the writing of two Ag/Economic experts on the subjects of: why people think that speculators drive food commodities why speculators, in actuality, do not drive food commodity prices At the risk of discrediting myself, I have held back on this [...]
