- video excerpts from a democracy now interview - speculating on food / wheat , creating an artificial "demand shock" - multiplying artificially by tenfold the price of wheat : http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ozQDHVuTiRA#t=238s replication <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_replication> and leveraging <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leverage_(finance)> : http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ozQDHVuTiRA#t=391s financial engineering tricks ? - example as I understand it ? : using the ( artificially bloating ? ) markets ( such as food markets ) to attract cash from investors, then leverage twenty fold, then invest excess in treasuries, then leverage the secure treasuries again, then dispose the credit for their traders to speculate... ( and artificially increase prices of core necessities ? ... attract more cash to use from investor clients... and leverage again ? )