No more calls, folks. We have a winner. Commodities aren't necessarily rising. It's the dollar that's falling. Thanks to The Ben Bernanke.
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People are jumping in to get above average returns on their money.
That's only part of it. A lot of money is pouring into commodities, partially driven by a desire to hedge against the likes of Bernanke, but also by the fact that many newer exchanges don't have provisions for position limits on speculative positions (a speculator being someone who neither produces nor uses the commodity in question).
And as in 2008, I imagine the investment banks are now working to line to the suckers to take in in the shorts from the banks' short positions.