One performance-enhancer was China's appetite for raw materials, which created a commodity boom that supercharged many emerging markets.
The government created a commodity exchange in 2008, again with donor support, that was supposed to modernise food markets.
And ultimately what I'd like to do is create a commodity that is called ocean plastic, or ocean post-consumer plastic, that anybody could buy.
For the paper, such a change would greatly reduce the number of driver employees and also create a commodity - the routes - that could be offered to people willing to deliver the paper during a strike.
We were, incorrectly, focused on creating a commodity rather than reinventing a category.
The White House and Treasury Department went along with the Fed's weak-dollar policy, which wrought havoc on the world by creating a commodity bubble and a catastrophic loosening of lending standards and investing prudence.
But this isn't all just about creating a commodity, it's about sharing the source with like-minded individuals in a joyful showcase, which is where the exhibit and magazine come in.
As if these unsettling events were not enough, the Chinese slowdown helped to create a commodities crisis which also caused anxiety in some emerging stock markets.
The deal, which values the combined company at $86 billion, would create a commodities behemoth whose activities touch all types of companies that need raw materials to make cars, mobile phones and other goods.
The deal, which values the combined company at $86 billion, would create a commodities giant whose activities touch all types of firms that need raw materials to make cars, mobile phones and other goods.
