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Royals Hit Into Baseball's Second Triple Play This Week

Earlier this week, the Los Angeles Dodgers turned a one-of-kind triple play against the San Diego Padres. Tonight it was the Toronto Blue Jays turn, with a more conventional triple play against the Kansas City Royals.

And by conventional, we really mean, extremely unlucky. Because there is nothing conventional about triple plays.

In this instance, the Royals were mounting a rally with two runners on base when Eric Hosmer hit a line drive right at the first baseman. At that point, the runners were just too far off base. It was the first triple play turned by the Jays since 1979, which was also the last time the Royals hit into one...

 

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Microsoft?s Good For $38 As Growth Catalysts Start Clicking

2012 will be a decisive year for Windows Phone, and should seal the fate of the platform which has been trying hard to claw its way into the smartphone market dominated by Android and iOS, but has seen little success so far.

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How Wall Street's Speculators Are Bidding Up Your Grocery Bill

Grocery StoreOver the past 10 years, prices for basic food commodities like meat, dairy products, grains, oils and fats, and sugar, have increased by an average of more than 125%.

Part of the increase is due to rising production costs and changes in supply and demand. But you also have Wall Street traders to thank for the higher price tags.

With no intention of buying the underlying food commodities, Wall Street dumps massive amounts of money into commodities futures in hopes of profiting from fluctuations in food prices. In the process, it's moving the market in its favor -- and emptying the pockets of consumers.

So what the heck is a future, and how does it affect your grocery bill?

The Fable of the Farmer and the Speculator

Wheat and speculationSuppose Speculator Smith thinks the price of wheat will go up in the future, and wants to make money off the price change. Smith can do this by purchasing a future in wheat. This future buys a specific amount of wheat at a pre-determined price to be delivered at a set date in the future, when the wheat future matures. If the price of wheat goes up, Smith's investment in his wheat future is worth more, and he can sell it at a higher price without taking delivery of the wheat.

So far, so good. The farmers benefited from the security of knowing they would be able to sell some portion of their crop at a set price at the end of the season. Smith's gamble paid off once the wheat price increased, but he also took on the risk of losing money if the price of wheat went down in the interim.

Here's where it gets hairy. Frequently, instead of a farmer being on the other end of the speculator's contract, there is another speculator.


In such a case, neither side owns the commodity and neither wants to own it. They are just on opposite sides of a bet on whether the price will go up or down. Before the contract expires, the loser simply pays the winner, and no commodities change hands.

But this speculation actually causes the prices of the underlying commodities to move. As the demand for futures rises, the price for those futures rises, causing the prices of the underlying commodities (including food commodities) to increase.

The problem has only grown in recent years, as financial companies have nearly doubled their investments in food commodities over the past five years, which has helped push food prices to 30-year highs.

And these price increases are passed on to consumers like you. Commodity speculation also pushes up prices on energy, among many other products we rely on.

Fuller Pockets for Wall Street, Emptier Fridges for the Rest of Us

The importance of this issue is magnified by the fact that about 46 million Americans -- about one in seven -- turn to food stamps to help them pay for food.

The effects of rising food costs are even more alarming in Third World and developing countries, where there are many poor people who already spend more than 60% of their income on food. According to the UN World Food Program, 115 million people have fallen into hunger as a result of sharp increases in food prices since 2008 and the global economic recession, which has caused food riots to erupt in countries like Mexico and Bangladesh.

While the recently passed Dodd-Frank Act calls for stronger regulation of commodity trading, Wall Street has been fighting tooth and nail to defang the regulations, and has undertaken legal challenges that have prevented the regulations from coming into force yet.

Until they do, don't expect your grocery bill to get any leaner.

Motley Fool contributor M. Joy Hayes, Ph.D. is the principal at ethics consulting firm Courageous Ethics. She doesn't own shares of any of the companies mentioned. Follow @JoyofEthics on Twitter.


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The New York Post's 'Never Before Seen' Photos Of Derek Jeter's $18-Million Apartment Were On Our Website Last Year

The New York Post got ahold of some never-before-seen pictures of Derek Jeter's awesome Upper East Side bachelor pad today.

The only problem is that you've seen them before, more or less. On this website. 15 months ago.

In January 2011 we did a slideshow of "before and after" shots of Jeter's $20-million apartment. The "before" shots came from the original real estate listing, and the "after" shots came from an updated listing that appeared on Trump World Tower's official website.

The listing has since been taken down, but here's one of the shots:

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And here's the Post big exclusive today:

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To be fair, the photos are technically different than the ones in the Trump listing from last year. The were taken at a different time of the day. The picture above, for instance, has "exclusive" rays of sunlight on the carpet.

Here's another:

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And the Post:

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As you can see, Jeter moved his telescope to the window at some point in the last 15 months.

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FELIX SALMON: If I Were A Hedge Fund Manager, This Is What I'd Be Buying Right Now

Felix Salmon

After attending a conference of big, institutional investors, Reuters blogger Felix Salmon reveals what he'd be buying right now if he didn't believe in a pure non-active approach for his own money.

Basically, he says equities are cheap compared to credit, and that Europe and Japan are cheap compared to the US.

Ergo...

There's a serious zip-code arbitrage in the world right now: multinational corporations are valued much more highly if they're based in the US than if they're based in Europe or Japan. That doesn't make a huge amount of sense given how global they all are. 

In general, if Japan really is managing to bounce back from its torrid 2011, then the stock market there — which is currently trading below book value — could have a lot of upside. Similarly, European stocks have suffered greatly from a decidedly pessimistic economic outlook for the continent as a whole and for the southern periphery in particular. But the continent's companies might well make good money even if Europe as a whole isn't growing. On top of that, any further move towards fiscal union or eurobonds could do wonders for investors' confidence that the eurozone will navigate through this crisis intact. 

The one big area to avoid, it seems to me, is any asset class which is both illiquid and expensive. I'd include private equity and venture capital in that class, as well as high-grade debt. There's really no reason, in a highly volatile world, to be invested in something which can fall a lot and can't easily be sold. Indeed, there's a strong case to be made that equities are actually safer than high-grade debt, certainly if your time horizon is greater than a few years. When equities fall, they can bounce back; when rates come back from zero, they're going to fall back again. Which means that when investors take mark-to-market losses on their bond portfolios, those losses will be permanent, rather than being on paper only.

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