If you are unaware of how a little commodity trading by some very big and very greedy firms can destroy the health and lives of billions of people, read this article from The Independent, a British newspaper. It will turn your stomach. Ebenezer Scrooge would have been outraged.

Johann Hari: How Goldman Gambled on Starvation

The reader should keep in mind that until the financial system was deregulated in the ’80s, ’90s and the last decade, this kind of depraved behavior would not have happened.

Tags: Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Commodity futures, Starvation