As high-tech stocks and real-estate investments have started to look less promising, financial speculators have turned to commodities. This is why energy and food prices have shot up so dramatically around the world.

Ah yes, the parasitic manipulative hand of the marketplace.

I would like to be able to expound further on this subject but anger and disgust is a powerful impediment.

Hey, it's the free market at work. What are you, a Stalinist?

Stalinist? No no no, far to the left of that omnipotent fraud.