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Economic Woes Turn Attention to Speculators

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In Washington, financial speculators have fat targets on their backs. They are being blamed for high gas prices, soaring grocery bills and volatile commodity markets, and lawmakers are lashing out at market regulators for not cracking down on them more vigorously. (New York Times [1], Friday)

The historic scapegoats.

FEE Timely Classic
The Benefits of Speculation [2] by Walter Block


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[1] New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/13/business/13speculate.html?hp

[2] The Benefits of Speculation: http://www.fee.org/publications/the-freeman/article.asp?aid=726

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