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The End of the Commodities Super Cycle

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Dec 07, 2012
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Has the so-called commodities super cycle, which has benefited economically backward but resource-rich countries for the better part of two decades and contributed to an astonishing increase in global trade, run its course?

Economists are arguing that, with the prices of such elemental goods as coal, oil, copper and grains having fallen dramatically, the…

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