Displaced people wait to be given food during a distribution organised by the UN World Food Programme, USAID and other local and international NGOs in Somalia.
Banks Make a Killing While People Starve
The same banks, hedge funds and financiers whose speculation on the global money markets caused the sub-prime mortgage crisis are thought to be causing food prices to yo-yo and inflate.
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