Peter Schiff: Quantitative easing driving up food prices

RT.com 19 May 2011

Economic and finance ministers from the G-20 nations are meeting in Argentina to discuss the increasing volatility among food and commodity prices.

The goal is to discuss and create policies aimed at increasing the global supply of commodities to keep up with increasingly demand.

However, discussion may be tense as both […]

World Bank Chief Calls for Return to Gold Standard

MoneyNews.com 08 Nov 2010

Leading economies should consider adopting a modified global gold standard to guide currency rates, World Bank President Robert Zoellick said on Monday in a surprise proposal before a potentially acrimonious G-20 summit.

Writing in the Financial Times, Zoellick called for a “Bretton Woods II” system of floating currencies as a successor […]

Catastrophism collapses

G20 leaders in Toronto tried to avoid the fate of colleagues felled by warming advocacy Lawrence Solomon Financial Post [CA] Commentary 7/2/2010

Last week’s G8 and G20 meetings in Toronto and its environs confirmed that the world’s leaders accept the demise of global-warming alarmism.

One year ago, the G8 talked tough about cutting global temperatures […]

G-20 summit drops clean-energy pledge

Earth Times 6/27/2010

Toronto – The leaders of the world’s 20 most powerful developed and developing states (G20) on Sunday dropped a pledge to invest in climate-friendly energy generation from their final summit statement.

Climate change topped the world agenda last year, but was eclipsed after the relative failure of a massive summit in Copenhagen […]

Obama to G20: Global recovery requires level playing field

Caren Bohan and Alister Bull Reuters 6/27/2010

Toronto – President Barack Obama said on Sunday it was important for global growth that there be a level playing field, and that involves market-driven currency policies.

Obama also mentioned China’s move toward more currency flexibility at a news conference at the close of the Group of 20 […]

Obama urges Europe not to slow stimulus

Martin Crutsinger Associated Press via The Washington Times 6/18/2010

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Obama is appealing to the world’s major economies not to waver in their efforts to support a sustained rebound from the near collapse of the global economic system in the fall of 2008.

“We must act together to strengthen the recovery,” Mr. […]

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