©2015 Bloomberg News NOKM5S6KLVR7 (Bloomberg) — Chinese hedge funds are helping drive a commodity derivatives trading boom in the world’s biggest energy, grains and metals consumer that’s defying the worst economic growth in 25 years. Trading volumes across on the Shanghai Futures Exchange, China’s biggest commodities bourse, surged 31 percent

You’ve no doubt heard about the crowed prisons.  The results of the “war on drugs”, the three strike laws and the mandatory minimum prison sentences have  resulted in a hugely overcrowded prison population.  The United States has about 5% of the world’s population and about 25% of the world’s prison