http://triplecrisis.com/stop-gambling-on-hunger/ Global Perspectives on Finance, Development, and Environment Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:04:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://triplecrisis.com/stop-gambling-on-hunger/comment-page-1/#comment-897 Tim Wise Fri, 21 May 2010 14:05:19 +0000 http://triplecrisis.com/?p=614#comment-897 This is as clear an analysis of the stakes for global food security in the financial re-regulation being debated and implemented now. The US Senate notably passed a financial regulation law that includes significant restrictions on the kind of derivative trading Jayati Ghosh talks about. That provision is not in the version of the bill passed by the US House, so the political process of reconciling the two versions leaves an open invitation to the financial sector to weaken the bill by taking out the limitations on derivatives trading. This is as clear an analysis of the stakes for global food security in the financial re-regulation being debated and implemented now. The US Senate notably passed a financial regulation law that includes significant restrictions on the kind of derivative trading Jayati Ghosh talks about. That provision is not in the version of the bill passed by the US House, so the political process of reconciling the two versions leaves an open invitation to the financial sector to weaken the bill by taking out the limitations on derivatives trading.

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