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Casino ofHunger
How Wall Street SpeculatorsFueled the Global Food Crisis
 
 About Food & Water Watch
Food & Water Watch is a non-prot organization working with grassroots organizations around the worldto create an economically and environmentally viable future. Through research, public and policymakereducation, media and lobbying, we advocate policies that guarantee safe, wholesome food produced in ahumane and sustainable manner and public, rather than private, control of water resources including oceans,rivers and groundwater. For more information, visit www.foodandwaterwatch.org.
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Executive Summary..................................................................................................................................................iv Food Crisis of 2007-2008...........................................................................................................................................1 
Commodity Speculation Worsened Market Factors Causing Price Rise
..................................................2The Role of Commodity Futures Markets...............................................................................................................3Deregulation Allowed Speculation to Bloom...........................................................................................................4
 Blurring the Distinction Between Physical Hedgers and Wall Street Money Managers
.........................5Financial Terms.........................................................................................................................................................6Unregulated Over-the-Counter Market Swamps Commodities Markets................................................................6 
 Increase in Futures Investment 
...................................................................................................................8 
 New Index Funds Pour Investment Dollars into Agricultural Commodities
.............................................8 American Farmers Left in Lurch by Excess Speculation...........................................................................................11Conclusions and Recommendations.......................................................................................................................12Endnotes..........................................................................................................................................................13
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How Wall Street Speculators Fueled the Global Food Crisis
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Yuli Andriansyah

Good report. Nice to read it.

reply11 / 15 / 2009
Jed Diamond, Ph.D.

This is a powerful report that I highly recommend. As those who have been following my writing know, I have long believed that issues like peak oil, global climate change, food shortages, and our economic decline are related. As pointed out in the article, there are those who take advantage of the environmental changes going on in the world to make a killing financially, a killing which is liter

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