More than a dozen residents of Damascus and Aleppo interviewed by CNN complained of daily power outages and rising prices of commodities including sugar and cooking fuel.

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Commodities are on the rise, many of them hitting new peaks daily in recent weeks.

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Now Wall Street is re-inflating the commodities bubbles as gold pushes to a new all time high almost daily, and as crude oil breaks out to the upside.

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Average daily trading volume in May alone was 7% lower than the first quarter in commodities and 14% lower in credit.

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Emerging Markets and Commodities: Where Stimulus is REALLY Going by Bill Bonner originally appeared in the Daily Reckoning.

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