{"id":7742,"date":"2012-08-25T16:45:41","date_gmt":"2012-08-25T16:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=7742"},"modified":"2012-08-25T16:45:41","modified_gmt":"2012-08-25T16:45:41","slug":"leftists-attack-speculators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/leftists-attack-speculators\/","title":{"rendered":"Leftists Attack &#8220;Speculators&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Two-Economists.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Two-Economists-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Pope Benedict XVI meets former Cuban leader Fidel Castro in Havana\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7743\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Two-Economists-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Two-Economists.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/politics\/vatican-urges-g20-to-convene-crisis-summit-on-food-prices-8076849.html\">Via<\/a> <em>The Independent<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The G20 was under growing pressure to call an emergency summit on global food prices last night as the Vatican accused grain speculators of &#8220;hampering the poorest and neediest&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday the Vatican&#8217;s permanent observer at the UN in Geneva, Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, claimed &#8220;market activities&#8221; such as arbitrage [buying and selling goods to exploit price differences] and the use of derivatives trading in grain supply chains, are &#8220;hampering the poorest and the neediest&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I don\u2019t know what is worse: The attempt to play a populist card, or the profound ignorance of economics that the Vatican has, yet again, revealed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via The Independent: The G20 was under growing pressure to call an emergency summit on global food prices last night as the Vatican accused grain speculators of &#8220;hampering the poorest and neediest&#8230; Yesterday the Vatican&#8217;s permanent observer at the UN &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/leftists-attack-speculators\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[403,962,410],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7742"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7744,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7742\/revisions\/7744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}