Arundhati Roy - Paul Grignon - John Maynard Keynes - Herbert Hoover - Trading Places 1983 - Horizon TV - Misha Glenny - Exterminate All the Brutes TV -
The crisis of modern democracy is a profound one. Free elections, a free press and an independent judiciary mean little when the free market has reduced them to commodities available on sale to the highest bidder. Arundhati Roy
Gold is inconvenient ... Why any single commodity? ... It makes the value of money exclusively dependant on the quantity of that one commodity. Paul Grignon, Money as Debt III: Evolution Beyond Money, 2006
If however a government refrains from regulations and allows matters to take their course, essential commodities soon attain a level of price out of the reach of all but the rich, the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent, and the fraud upon the public can be concealed no longer. John Maynard Keynes
The fundamental business of the country – that is production and distribution of commodities – is on a sound and prosperous basis. Herbert Hoover
We are commodities brokers, William. Now what are commodities? Commodities are agricultural products. Like coffee that you had for breakfast. Wheat which is used to make bread. Pork bellies which is used to make bacon. Which you may find in a bacon and lettuce and tomato sandwich. And then there are other commodities like frozen orange juice and gold. Though of course gold doesn’t grow on trees like orange juice. Trading Places 1983 starring Dan Aykroyd & Eddie Murphy & Jamie Lee Curtis & Denholm Elliott & Ralph Belamy & Don Ameche & Paul Gleason & Kristin Holby & Frank Oz et al, director John Landis
The most valuable commodity of the twenty-first century. Horizon – The Age of Big Data, BBC 2013
Western access to commodities like coltan depended on the offices of organised-crime groups working throughout southern and western Africa. Misha Glenny, McMafia
On these roads, the circulation of the most valuable and decisive commodities would permit the survival of the human race in its adaptation of the planet. And along these roads, for better or worse, silk of course would circulate, but also religion, language, refugees, artists, technology and pandemics. Exterminate All the Brutes s1e3, Sky Documentaries 2021