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So we've got 35 places, we've got 15 priority commodities, who do we work with to change the way those commodities are produced?
300 to 500 companies control 70 percent or more of the trade of each of the 15 commodities that we've identified as the most significant.
So, we went through our 15 commodities.
And if you go through the first 25 or 30 names of each of the commodities, what you begin to see is, gosh, there's Cargill here, there's Cargill there, there's Cargill everywhere.
We said: if we take the top hundred companies, what percentage of all 15 commodities do they touch, buy or sell?
So 100 companies control 25 percent of the trade of all 15 of the most significant commodities on the planet.
For the big companies, it's reputational risk, but more importantly, they don't care what the price of commodities is.
If they don't have commodities, they don't have a business.
If you divide the amount of water into what the farmer was paid, the farmer didn't receive enough money to pay a decent price for water in any of those commodities.
You can't watch a film like Peter Watkins' "Privilege," a story of the exploitation of a pop music performer by big business, the state, and even organized religion, without thinking of creatively degenerate commodities like Michael Jackson or Britney Spears, who hawk corporate giants like Pepsi or some other poison for money.
Russia’s economic success is partly attributable to high oil and commodities prices.
Markets reduce everything, including human beings (labor) and nature (land), to commodities.
But targeting the consumer price index precludes this, because depreciation would raise the price of imported oil, food, and other tradable commodities.
American workers are treated like disposable commodities, tossed aside if and when they cannot keep up with changes in technology and the marketplace.
With their share of global GDP increasing, developing countries would sustain relative demand for commodities, thereby preventing prices from reverting to the low levels that prevailed in the 1980’s and 1990’s.
According to MGI, by 2035, changes in the supply and demand for major commodities could result in total cost savings of $900 billion to $1.6 trillion worldwide.
Commodities on the RiseSEOUL – The commodity super-cycle – in which commodity prices reach ever-higher highs, and fall only to higher lows – is not over.
As more of China’s population converges to Western standards of consumption, demand for commodities – and thus their prices – will remain on an upward trajectory.
Of course, not all commodities are equal.
Meanwhile, the supply of most commodities is forecast to grow by no more than 2% annually in real terms.
All else being equal, unless China’s commodity intensity, defined as the amount of a commodity consumed to generate a unit of output, falls dramatically, its demand for commodities will be greater this year than it was last year.
To be sure, intensity of use has fallen for some commodities, like gold and nuclear energy; but for others, such as aluminum and coal, it has risen since 2000 or, as is the case for copper and oil, declines have slowed markedly or stalled at high levels.
For many commodities, such as oil, the reserve price is higher in emerging countries than in developed economies.
Such price increases can prove particularly inflationary in countries that import commodities.
We exclude the prices of commodities (oil, copper, and other such goods that are traded on an exchange), as these prices are not sticky.
In turn, prices for most commodities have risen.
Currently, the Maghreb countries suffer from soaring unemployment, poverty, and high prices for basic commodities.
The Fed and the Bank of England remain less likely to be concerned about the emergence of new kinds of asset bubbles in stock markets or commodities.
Brazil has risen to become the world’s seventh-largest economy, propelled by a commodities boom, a demographic dividend, and rising consumption.
Furthermore, the sharp appreciation of the real’s exchange rate – driven by high global commodities prices – has diminished export competitiveness.
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