Explaining food market speculation is as easy as taking cookies from a baby.
Last night, Stephen Colbert argued that there was nothing wrong with speculating on food markets because it’s just like, “playing lotto with someone else’s lunch money.” And to show what he meant, he brought out a little boy and gambled with him for a stack of cookies.“Timmy here represents whatever might need food,” Colbert said. “For example, a human child.”
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