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SuzeSaunts 1 year ago
Help how exactly? What are you asking us to do? Is there a campaign action?!
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WEEDnetz 1 year ago
We had email actions on the EU regulation in June and July 2011, and we will have similar actions on the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) revision in 2012, all current information on makefinancework(dot)org. Of course, you can always write to your MPs and MEPs in order to push them for this issue. Or you can inform other people about the issue. And, in case your bank, insurance or pension fund is involved in food speculation, you can write to them.
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ifirean 1 year ago
This is rubbish. OK so last year there was a shortage of grain because of weather conditions therefore the futures traders made money. What if this year there was a glut of grain then the futures traders would have to sell grain at a loss.
If they wanted to manipulate the market by creating a shortage of grain to boost prices they would have to store the grain which costs money and there is only capacity for one year´s harvest so the whole premise of this video makes no sense
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WEEDnetz 1 year ago
The video does not state that speculators always make profits. Indeed, many people also can loose money with this but this is just another argument why ordinary people should not invest in this. Surely, the biggest winners are the banks.
There are more ways how futures can influence cash prices than by encouraging stockpiling. Many cash commodtiy prices are simply fixed to futures prices because the latter are said to discover the prices more quickly.
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PaulinaWest1 9 hours ago
What I mean is, there is a difference between functional, transparent and competitive commodity derivatives markets and fraud, manipulation and excessive speculation. Genuine hedgers provide stability and confidence in the commodities market. But the banks like GoldmanSachs are making profits from manipulation of food prices, which really hurts people and is not a real market signal at all. There is a saying, "Misuse does not remove use." (: That is a beautiful coin in your picture.
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Guillaume Le Tisseur 10 hours ago
Speculative, stabilisze force... AAAH ! And 16 000 000 people who died from food speculation...that stabilizsation population ?! That CRAZY !!!
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PaulinaWest1 1 day ago
I can understand your feelings but if you watch the video closely, you will notice that speculators are a stabilizing force in the market. With limited, authentic speculators, the market can respond to real signals. The huge banks that trade in futures are the ones creating these spikes. Goldman Sachs is esp. responsible for the 2008 spikes in food prices. GSachs does not need to be making money from the basic necessities of life by manipulating markets. They are doing it to energy as well.
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Guillaume Le Tisseur 3 months ago
We have to do many times in history, simply prohibit speculation! (and punish severely those who practice) !
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Abercius24 1 year ago
Speculation is fine. Investment firms buying 60-80% of the futures market, selling them back and forth to each other to artificially drive up the price, only to then sell them back to the general market at a profit is outrageous! That's the peice that's missing in this explanation!
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meProudToBeCaucasian 1 year ago
you idiot they always take this reasons to speculate and to make profits of completely overreact prices by the markets
and the media goes all along with this rubbbish, its the same with oil prices they are over speculated because of the shortage of oil instead to have a price that should be more real, we have the same seen in the crisis where both food and natural recourses went down because the speculation bubble explode,
keep living in your reality you sheep
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Daydream2142 1 year ago
right on
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IOIOIOIOIOIOIOIOIOIO 1 year ago
Oil is the key for these spikes. Compare Brent performance with the food prices index and you'll se the overlap.
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