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Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000

Commodity Traitors: Financial Speculation on Commodities Fuels Global Insecurity

Eric Michael Johnson | Posted 11.29.2011 | Business
Read More: Wall Street Crisis, Wall Street Regulation, Wall Street, Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000, Commodity Prices, Economic Crisis, Occupy Wall Street, Agriculture, Science, #Occupywallstreet, Business News
Eric Michael Johnson

In the face of widespread global hunger, it turns out there is a downside to playing with your food.

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How Congress Rushed a Bill that Helped Bring the Economy to Its Knees

Paul Blumenthal | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Sunlight Foundation, Bailout, Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000, Economy, Economic Crisis, Read the Bill, Phil Gramm, Larry Summers, Alan Greenspan, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Brooksley Born, Transparency, Politics News
Paul Blumenthal

If ever there was a case where Congress should have given more time and listened closer, this was it. Now, we're all paying for it.

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Paint McCain a Red-Baiter

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Free Markets, Joe Mccarthy, John McCain, Hewlett-Packard, Communist, Commie, Credit Default Swaps, Barack Obama, Ubs, Aig, Red States, Golden Parachute, Wall Street, Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000, Ceo, Deregulation, Phil Gramm, Glass-Steagall Act, Joe Mccain, Class Warfare, Carly Fiorina, Red-Baiting, Politics News
Leo W. Gerard

The "small government" Bush and Republican Congress increased spending, thus replacing the budget surplus bequeathed them with deficits.

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