At worst, it reduces the individuality and uniqueness of each of us – a friend, family member, citizen or human – to be valued only as a consumer, a corporate commodity.
It all sprouts from the same problem: turning basic research into a corporate commodity.
Or will cannabis become another corporate commodity; an industry with impenetrable barriers to entry?
The evaluation endorses UNICEF's plan to develop a corporate commodity tracking by mid-2004.
And there were still more bubbles for local government borrowing, leveraged buyouts, hedge funds, commercial and industrial loans, corporate bonds, commodities, and credit default swaps.... Taken together, these amounted to the biggest asset and credit bubble in human history".
Food sector emissions are largely the result of industrial livestock operations, fertiliser and chemical use, carbon loss from soils on industrial farms, and significantly, deforestation driven by a handful of corporate controlled commodities.
They bought emerging-market equities, corporate bonds, commodities and property, while giving money to hedge funds and private-equity managers with their complex strategies and high fees.The idea was to "be like Yale", the university endowment fund run by David Swensen, a celebrated investor, which started to diversify into hedge funds and private equity in the 1980s.
Most are sketchy, fairly idiosyncratic maps of New York City, which is often depicted as a well-head of crime, corporate exploitation and commodity culture.
After a couple of days in which optimism was allowed to creep back in, Asian markets moved decisively back into the red, as worries about slowdowns in corporate earnings and commodity demand chased away relief over easing credit conditions.
On bad days, equities, corporate bonds and commodities fall, while the yen and dollar rise.
Everything - emerging markets, US government bonds, corporate debt, property, commodities - has been going up.
