From 2003 to 2008, the volume of commodity index fund speculation increased by 1,900 percent

And so, from 2003 to 2008, the volume of commodity index fund speculation increased by 1,900 percent.

Frederick Kaufman, Bet the Farm: How Food Stopped Being Food (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 2012).

Frederick Kaufman, Bet the Farm: How Food Stopped Being Food (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 2012). (FML has the e-book.)

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