Does the trading--does the fact a firm might hold a lot of aluminum warehouses and proceed to control the supply and demand of aluminum or in any other commodity like that, is that kind of equivalent to a tax on the financial system by inflating the costs that the end user pays?
Merkley raises concerns about commodity trading affecting consumer prices.
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