The credit culture that has driven our consumer society and turned our homes into commodities has been a modern form of exploitation.
Does this have anything to do with why AIG's counterparties are getting paid back in full, to the tune of tens of billions of taxpayer dollars given that just like the unforeseen drop in home prices, commodity prices have fallen dramatically?
Next year, however, the company, which is based in Kuala Lumpur, is planning to help export another home-grown commodity to China Malaysiaia's knowledge of producing halal goods, food permissible under Islam.
Everyone was in dotcom businesses and no one saw any earning potential in doing up homes.' Since then, she says, people have stopped seeing houses as homes but as commodities instead.
Today, it is home to a commodity-futures market.
Special tax breaks for traders and companies that operate largely offshore have helped make Switzerland the perfect home for the commodity groups, and have helped them grow tenfold over the past decade.
OWLR : OWLR's software coverts commodity home security cameras into a smarter, simpler and even more secure system for parents and home owners.
One way it could do that is to start building reference designs for commodity home entertainment products where the Sony brand is coming under intense pressure.
And the big fear is of retrenchment, that if something goes wrong back home -- a commodity-price plunge, a geopolitical shift -- the foreign owners will cash in their English holdings and walk, leaving behind a lot more than stale beer and unsold meat pies.
Malaysia, trying to keep its commodities at home, has made it a crime to export flour and other products without a license.
