ONIONS are an important ingredient in the history of commodity speculation.
He covered topics ranging from the theories of the Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises to the history of commodity markets.
Hedge fund Amaranth lost $6 billion owning that spread then in what was one of the biggest implosions in the history of commodity markets.
Ruchir Sharma of Morgan Stanley sees in a 200-year history of commodity prices a repeated trend of two decades of price declines followed by one decade of gains.Commodity bulls and the world's big mining companies have an answer to all this.
REFCO, moreover, was fined two hundred and fifty thousand dollars — at that time the largest fine ever imposed on a broker in the history of commodity-futures trading.
It represents an architecture that has been detached from the history of ideas and consigned to the history of commodities.
Balkan Smoke thus offers a highly original and very compelling account of modern Bulgaria". "Mary C. Neuburger, already a preeminent scholar of the history of commodities, here examines the dogged Bulgarian attachment to the cigarette, past and present.
She effectively exploits the history of one commodity, in this case tobacco, to illuminate a wide range of interconnected economic, cultural, and social transformations in communist Bulgaria.
Her current project, funded by a Branco Weiss Fellowship (Science in Society Foundation), is a history of global commodity trade in the twentieth century, with a focus on Swiss trading companies.
In writing the life of tobacco in Bulgaria from the late Ottoman period through the years of Communist rule, Neuburger gives us much more than the cultural history of a commodity; she provides a fresh perspective on the genesis of modern Bulgaria itself.
As a major seaport, Bristol has a long history of trading commodities, originally wool cloth exports and imports of fish, wine, grain and dairy produce, later tobacco, tropical fruits and plantation goods; major imports now are motor vehicles, grain, timber, fresh produce and petroleum products.
