-- by Horatio Algeranon
A billion are malnourished
While bankers eat their cake
Their bonuses have flourished
With bailouts for their steak.
They speculate on commodities
And drive the food price up
Bringing poor-folk to their knees
So they themselves may sup.
"While nearly a billion people go hungry, Goldman Sachs bankers are feeding their own bonuses by betting on the price of food. Financial speculation is fueling food price spikes and Goldman Sachs is the No 1 culprit." -- Christine Haigh of the Word Development Movement
(from Goldman bankers get rich betting on food prices as millions starve (by Tom Bawden, The Independent)
For more on the subject, read Econolyin' and Wreckonomics
