The following is a bit of research clearly indicating that economic liberalism in practice - in the form of speculation in food prices - leads to starvation and misery for the most impoverished people on the planet.
Economic Times August 8 2008: "Speculation behind global commodity price rise."
PRI August 9 2008: "Orchestrating Famine – a Must-Read Backgrounder on the Food Crisis."
The Guardian January 24, 2011: "Food Speculation: 'People Die from Hunger While Banks Make a Killing on Food'"
The Guardian, Feburary 05, 2011: "How Banks and Investors are Starving The Third World."
Foreign Policy, April 27, 2011: "How Goldman Sachs Created the Food Crisis."
Al Jazeera English, May 09, 2011: "Glencore: Profiteering from hunger and chaos."
CNN: As food speculators make money, the world's poorest suffer.
Danwatch (23/09/2011): Banker har ingen politik for fødevarespekulation.
Oxfam International Report (October 2011): "Not a Game: Speculation vs Food Security".
Monthly Review (Jan. 2012): Food as a Commodity.
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