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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. Since then, trading in corn and other commodities has gained in respectability — thanks in part to arguments and evidence mustered by economists following in Smith''s footsteps. Ethics Finance Global business' The popular odium.

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