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Do Commodities Speculators Make Things Cost More?

Harvard Business Review

Commodities trading, Adam Smith wrote in 1776 , was a boon to efficiency and a foe to famine. 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? Ethics Finance Global business' The popular odium. When economist David S.

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