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Do Commodities Speculators Make Things Cost More?

Harvard Business Review

And the consensus among economists has for decades been that commodity speculation clearly serves a useful purpose — so more of it can''t hurt, right? Louis Fed found that speculative forces began to drive oil prices in 2004, "which is when significant investment started to flow into commodity markets.". When economist David S.

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