So now the watching-developments-in-Rwanda crowd wants a piece of the action.
Reading the Bloomberg story "China, India, Brazil Back France’s Plan to Tackle ‘Plague’ of Food Prices":
“A market that is not regulated is not a market, it’s a lottery in which fortune smiles on the most cynical, instead of rewarding hard work, investment and the creation of value,”
-Sarkozy addressing G-20 Ag ministers
Reminded me of the headlines from a couple weeks ago:
The Guardian, June 6
UN blames speculators on food price surge
Fundweb
UN calls for intervention in commodity markets
Agrimoney
UN proposes commodity deal tax to curb speculation
Wall Street Journal, June 5
UN Agency Urges Controls On Financial Investors In Commodity Markets
So the plan appears to be: Have a bunch of unelected kleptocrats plan the world food economy, set up side deals for their BFF's and divvy up the spoils.
As an homage to world class ad man, i.e. manipulator, Jerry Della Femina, I will probably have another post on the UN rent-seeking called "'From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Oil-for-Food".
I'm checking the link-vault for my fax copy of the $985K check that former U.N. honcho Maurice Strong got from Saddam Hussein and which was presented as evidence to the Volcker inquiry.
While I do that, the journo's among our readers can brush off the oil-for-wheat file. (hint, hint)
