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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. Markets that existed mainly for the convenience of industry have become dominated by exchange-traded funds, hedge funds, and investment banks. Ethics Finance Global business' The popular odium. When economist David S.

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