‘It’s the rich what gets the money’
Eric Rigby reports
Some newspaper articles have recently referred to the growth in the number of the world’s population going hungry, one article quoting a United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation official to the effect that for the first time in history more than 1,000,000,000 people would be going to bed hungry that night. The explanation given was that this was due not to food shortages but to price increases caused by speculators who have moved into food and commodities markets since the tightening up of regulatory control in financial markets after the recent financial crisis of 2008.
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