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Excellent question.

As a matter of fact, returns on food become higher than on financial assets in times of famines, thus ensuring investment in food production (or hoarding via pillaging). of course, there is the small matter that these investments take time to be brought to market...

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Tue Jun 19th, 2007 at 05:22:07 PM EST
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