Commodities


The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
The King of Oil: The Secret Lives of Marc Rich
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
The New Merchants of Grain: Out of the Shadows
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
Commodity Conversations: An Introduction to Trading in Agricultural Commodities
Oil 101
The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World
Salt: A World History
Hot Commodities: How Anyone Can Invest Profitably in the World's Best Market
Merchants of Grain: The Power and Profits of the Five Giant Companies at the Center of the World's Food Supply
Empire of Cotton: A Global History
Metal Men: How Marc Rich Defrauded the Country, Evaded the Law, and Became the World's Most Sought-After Corporate Criminal
The Secret Club That Runs the World: Inside the Fraternity of Commodities Traders
Price Wars: How the Commodities Markets Made Our Chaotic World
Salt by Mark KurlanskyBanana by Dan KoeppelUncommon Grounds by Mark PendergrastEating the Empire by Troy BickhamCod by Mark Kurlansky
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Angela Carter
In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she refuses to sell taken away from her by force
Angela Carter

Legislation has created usury; and the Mutual Bank can destroy it. Usury is a result of the legislation which establishes a particular commodity as the sole article of legal tender; and, when all commodities are made to be ready money through the operation of Mutual Banking, usury will vanish.
William Batchelder Greene, Mutual Banking

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