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As reported by the Financial Times and Wall Street Journal in recent weeks, commodity funds took a significant financial hit in 2012 losing on average 3.7 of their value during that period. As reported in these articles, investors have been fleeing this asset class, causing the...

Here is a video interview of Robert Pollin, Co-Director of the PERI Institute, who succinctly explains the swaps-food relationship. The excerpt is taken from a longer interview that can be found on YouTube.  

  I was recently given a link to an interesting paper written last year that explores the business of commodity speculation. Written by Brett Scott at the World Development Movement, it tells the story of Barclays and its business in the commodity derivatives business....

A bibliography entitled “Evidence on the Negative Impact of Commodity Speculation by Academics, Analysts and Public Institutions,” has been updated with a number of additional papers on the topic. Compiled by Markus Henn, at the German NGO,WEED, it is a comprehensive...