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Hot Commodities, Stuffed Markets, and Empty Bellies -- Finance Industry Fuels the Food Crisis

By Ben Collins, Dollars and Sense. Posted August 12, 2008.


Prices of basic agricultural commodities have skyrocketed worldwide, threatening to further impoverish hundreds of millions of the world's poor.
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Ben Collins is a member of the Dollars & Sense collective and a research analyst at KLD Research & Analytics, a sustainable investment research company. Mr. Collins's views do not necessarily reflect those of KLD or its clients.

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