Alan Bjerga

How Goldman Sachs started the food speculation frenzy

Alan Bjerga

| 13th September 2011

US Investment bank Goldman Sachs convinced government officials in the early 1990s to allow it to start gambling on the price of food. Alan Bjerga explains how they did it

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