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Susan Collins: “What our hearings demonstrated was that speculation in the commodities markets by noncommercial investors... has grown…”

On the recordJune 1, 2009
What our hearings demonstrated was that speculation in the commodities markets by noncommercial investors... has grown enormously from 2003 to 2008.
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Susan Collins
Republican · Maine

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Collins highlights the significant increase in speculation by noncommercial investors in commodities markets.

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