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U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Title: Financial Speculation in Commodity Markets: Are Institutional Investors and Hedge Funds Contributing to Food and Energy Price Inflation?
Date: 5/20/08
Time (EST): 10:30 AM
Place: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Rm. 342
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Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
 
Member Statements
    Senator Joseph I. Lieberman   [View PDF]     Senator Susan M. Collins   [View PDF]
 
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Witnesses Testimony
 
Panel 1
  Jeffrey H. Harris [View PDF] , Chief Economist , Commodity Futures Trading Commission
  Michael W. Masters [View PDF] , Managing Member and Portfolio Manager , Masters Capital Management, LLC
  Thomas J. Erickson [View PDF] , Chairman , Commodity Markets Council
  Benn Steil [View PDF] , Ph.D. , Senior Fellow and Director of International Economics , Council on Foreign Relations
  Tom Buis [View PDF] , President , National Farmers Union



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Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
340 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510