The Impact of Financial Speculators on Food Prices: Driving Away or Essential for Agricultural Markets?

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Because financial speculators are artificially driving up the prices of corn, grain, cocoa and soy, food is becoming more and more expensive. The population suffers from it, demonstrates and sometimes revolts.

Is it high time to drive the speculators away from the commodity futures exchanges? But this is not so easy. Because without them, the global agricultural markets cannot function. Pension funds and insurance companies also bet on rising or falling prices. This means that the profits ultimately end up in our life insurance and pensions.

SWR 2023

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