MetaFilter posts tagged with commodities

The Copper Standard

bigmusic — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 00:30:41 -0800

The new monetary standard: Copper.

The Next Big Threat?

Megami — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:33:57 -0800

Food insecurity may not be as sexy a cause as climate change, refugees or terrorism, (or bird flu for that matter) but for many people around the world, rising food prices are driving them to riot . Various commentators are linking the problem to climate change, biofuels and greed. Even if many people in 'the West' don't care about poor people not being able to afford food, will they care if it becomes a security threat? Recently discussed on a similar theme on Metafilter here

Burn, Onitsha, burn

klangklangston — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 16:56:31 -0800

The other religious riots. While much of the world's press has covered the Muslim cartoon riots, not nearly as much ink has been spilled over the continuing violence in Nigeria. A good analysis of underlying factors here. A Shell report points to oil as a proximate cause of violence as well. For oil companies, this may not be a bad thing. (If I was more interested in trolling, I'd have framed this as "Christian Leaders Fail to Condemn Religious Violence." The real world's a little more complex).

Big Dave — Wed, 12 Sep 2001 12:50:00 -0800

Gasoline price gouging reported. In the wake of yesterday's tragedies, I'm not surprised by the courage and resolve many have demonstrated. I'm also not surprised by the nauseating greed evidenced by others. What's the price of gasoline (or other goods and commodities) doing in your part of the country?