Commodities – a little bit of volatility anyone? 
                ANALYSIS: Most commodities are essential for our modern standard of living, so why are they so volatile?
                
                    
    
                
                
                    Plant your seeds and then hope to avoid fire, flood, insects, and drought.
                
                
             
            
        
        
            
                
                    A paper by the International Monetary Fund titled ‘The Long-Run Behaviour of Commodity Prices: Small Trends and Big Variability’ found that, in aggregate, there was a slight downward trend in inflation-adjusted commodity prices, over at least the 140-year period they studied, yet price
                
                
                    
                        
    
        
            
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