CRIMINAL MANIPULATION OF COMMODITIES FUTURES MARKETS BY THE BIG BANKS NET FABULOUS PROFITS BY A CRIMINAL PROCESS SO FAR IGNORED BY PROSECUTORS ...AT GREAT EXPENSE TO US CONSUMERS

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April 13, 2012

Speculation and Criminal Manipulation of Food and Commodities Prices

Michael Greenberger: Weak regulations on speculators swamping markets and lack of enforcement of existing laws on criminal intent, are driving up prices

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Bio

Michael Greenberger is a professor at the University of Maryland School of Law, where he teaches a course entitled "Futures, Options and Derivatives."Professor Greenberger serves as the Technical Advisor to the United Nations Commission of Experts of the President of the UN General Assembly on Reforms of the International Monetary and Financial System. He has recently been named to the International Energy Forum’s Independent Expert Group that provided recommendations for reducing energy price volatility to the IEF’s 12th Ministerial Meeting in March 2010. Professor Greenberger was a partner for more than 20 years in the Washington, D.C. law firm of Shea & Gardner, where he served as lead litigation counsel before courts of law nationwide, including the United States Supreme Court.

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April 13, 2012

Global North VS South Over Financialization of Food

Vijay Prashad: US and West fighting BRICK and other southern countries that want limits on speculation on food

Bio

Vijay Prashad is a professor of international studies at Trinity College. Among the many books he has authored are The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World and Arab Spring, Libyan Winter. He also writes regularly for Asia Times Online, Frontline magazine and Counterpunch.

AN INTERVIEW WITH A COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION COMMISSIONER WHO HOPES TO REGULATE HIGH-SPEED COMMODITIES TRADING AND THE $600 TRILLION DERIVATIVES MARKET SUFFICIENTLY TO AVERT ANOTHER BIG-BANK CRASH...

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August 15, 2011

CFTC Commissioner: "A Hair Trigger Away from Economic Calamity"

Bart Chilton Pt.1: Wall Street lobbyists trying to slow down trading regulations and defund Commission



August 16, 2011

Food, Speculation and Parasitical Trading

Bart Chilton Pt.2: Massive spikes in price of food, oil, natural gas and silver cannot be the result of supply and demand



August 18, 2011

Will CFTC Limit Excessive Speculation?

Bart Chilton Pt.3: For regulations to be effective, there has to be political will and proper resources



Bio

Bart Chilton is the current commissioner for the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Bart Chilton was nominated by President Bush and confirmed by the U. S. Senate in 2007. In 2009, he was re-nominated by President Obama and reconfirmed by the Senate. He has served as the Chairman of the CFTC’s Energy and Environmental Markets Advisory Committee (EEMAC). His career spans 25 years in government service—working on Capitol Hill in the House of Representatives, in the Senate, and serving in the Executive Branch during the Clinton, Bush and Obama Administrations. Prior to joining the CFTC, Mr. Chilton was the Chief of Staff and Vice President for Government Relations at the National Farmers Union where he represented family farmers. In 2005, Mr. Chilton was a Schedule C political appointee of President Bush at the U. S. Farm Credit Administration where he served as an Executive Assistant to the Board. From 2001 to 2005, Mr. Chilton was a Senior Advisor to Senator Tom Daschle, the Democrat Leader of the United States Senate, where he worked on myriad issues including agriculture and transportation policy.