Goldman, LME Sued Over Aluminum Storage-Rate Scheme By Evan Weinberger Law360, New York (August 05, 2013, 2:51 PM ET) — A Michigan aluminum processor on Thursday filed a purported class action alleging that Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and the London Metal Exchange Ltd. used anti-competitive warehousing agreements to artificially inflate the costs of storing the…

For Immediate Release August 5, 2013 Contact: Mike Callicrate, 785 332 8128, callicrate NCBA Files Suit to Abolish COOL Beef Checkoff dollars undermining producer interests! The Organization for Competitive Markets (OCM) today called for the immediate dismissal of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) as a contractor for the Beef Checkoff Program. On July 8th,…

AAI Comments on Recent Shake-up in Global Potash Markets, Announces Upcoming Monograph on the Fertilizer Oligopoly Today the American Antitrust Institute (AAI) weighed in on the recent shake-up in global potash markets. Russian potash producer Uralkali’s decision to break from the pack and lower prices has thrown the tight oligopoly of global fertilizer producers into…

OCM meeting to focus on COOL and NCBA’s involvement August 2, 2013 By Ken Anderson Leave a Comment Maintaining a strong defense of Country-of-Origin-Labeling (COOL) will be the main focus of the Organization for Competitive Markets’ (OCM) annual conference next week (August 9-10) in Kansas City. The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) and several other…