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Flatpicker

(894 posts) Thu Aug 23, 2012, 04:55 PM Aug 2012

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Capitalism run amok

[link:http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/well-make-a-killing-out-of-food-crisis-glencore-trading-boss-chris-mahoney-boasts-8073806.html|

Commodities should be exempt from profit taking in the modern world.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/well-make-a-killing-out-of-food-crisis-glencore-trading-boss-chris-mahoney-boasts-8073806.html

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Capitalism run amok (Original Post) Flatpicker Aug 2012 OP

Then what would be the motivation for anyone to produce them? Indydem Aug 2012 #1

Those People Are Not The Problem, Sir The Magistrate Aug 2012 #2

Thanks Flatpicker Aug 2012 #3

Indydem

(2,642 posts)

1. Then what would be the motivation for anyone to produce them?

Reply to Flatpicker (Original post)

Thu Aug 23, 2012, 04:56 PM

Aug 2012

Is the farmer, the well driller, the refiner, or the coal miner permitted to make a profit?

The Magistrate

(95,247 posts)

2. Those People Are Not The Problem, Sir

Reply to Indydem (Reply #1)

Thu Aug 23, 2012, 05:11 PM

Aug 2012

The speculating middle-men are....

Flatpicker

(894 posts)

3. Thanks

Reply to The Magistrate (Reply #2)

Thu Aug 23, 2012, 05:19 PM

Aug 2012

My Link didn't show.

My complaint is the middlemen not the producers.

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