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Eric Beinhocker estimates that in New York City alone, there are some 10 billion SKUs, or distinct commodities, being traded.
I imagine that my kids are going to live in a time when the most valuable commodities are fresh water and empathy.
It provoked tears as well as incisive questions about unarmed peace-keeping forces and the double-dealing of a Western society that picks its moral fights with commodities in mind.
We have to move away from what's called "the curse of the commodities."
Because it's not about oil, it's not about commodities.
ECX, moreover, can become a trading platform for a pan-African market in agricultural commodities.
Our economy was based on commodities, so the price of cotton or the price of wheat, and ultimately the price of oil and natural gas.
Having an economy, though, that relates to commodities can give you some ups and some downs, and that was certainly the case in Oklahoma City's history.
I mean, look, the markets in marijuana, cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine are global commodities markets just like the global markets in alcohol, tobacco, coffee, sugar, and so many other things.
Which is why putting criminal laws and police front and center in trying to control a dynamic global commodities market is a recipe for disaster.
I started in my 20s trading commodities, cotton in particular, in the pits, and if there was ever a free market free-for-all, this was it, where men wearing ties but acting like gladiators fought literally and physically for a profit.
With more people in the world with more stuff, we've effectively seen 100 years of price declines in those basic commodities erased in just 10 years.
For 15 years Nike has propped up an artificial commodities market, with a Facebook-level hyped IPO every single weekend.
Those interested in blood diamonds or exotic art, for instance, could share information about how the offshore world was being used to hide the trade in both of those commodities.
We are still exporting commodities, and exporting commodities is what?
What happens when biological design is driven by the motivations of mass-produced commodities?
Throughout history, most currency, including the US dollar, was linked to valuable commodities and the amount of it in circulation depended on a government's gold or silver reserves.
While this would stimulate business, it would also encourage overconsumption, or hoarding commodities, like food and fuel, raising their prices and leading to consumer shortages and even more inflation.
I was a commodities trader in my past life and one of the things that I learned trading is that every market has a tipping point, the point at which change occurs so rapidly that it impacts the world and things change forever.
And to talk about that, I'm going to go back to the beginning, because in the beginning were commodities.
Commodities are things that you grow in the ground, raise on the ground or pull out of the ground: basically, animal, mineral, vegetable.
Commodities were the basis of the agrarian economy that lasted for millennia.
But then along came the industrial revolution, and then goods became the predominant economic offering, where we used commodities as a raw material to be able to make or manufacture goods.
We're the agrarian economy, and we're supplying commodities.
Getting the commodities to market.
An earthquake, for example, can destroy the infrastructure needed to produce important commodities such as oil.
We are so accustomed to robbing girls of the subject of being the subjects of their lives that we have now actually objectified them and turned them into commodities.
Llively discussion guaranteed here, as always, as we get macro and talk commodities.
Continuing here in the studio with our guest Michael O'Donohue, head of commodities at Four Continents Capital Management.
These are the 15 commodities that fundamentally pose the biggest threats to these places because of deforestation, soil loss, water use, pesticide use, over-fishing, etc.
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