Commodity Wars: JP Morgan Stockpiling Inventory to Influence Prices, the Flow of Goods, and Rents

"We are witnessing the death of abundance and the borning of austerity, for what may be a long, long time."

Bill Gross

Crony capitalists are never interested in the risk and rigor of 'free markets,' only in the surety of monopolies and obtaining a license from the authorities for extracting rents from them. They alternately create artificial abundance and scarcity to influence prices, with