Producer Price Index's Incredible Rise

The economy has been tanked for some time, but these prices just keep going up.  If JPMorgan Chase is doubling its commodities trading, it's a good guess that the other big banks are doing the same thing.  According to this CNBC article, JP Morgan gobbled up 10 billion dollars in commodities in the first quarter—that's a lot of contracts!  I'm sure they are not alone as all these big banks mirror each others' trades.  This chart sure does look frothy and speculative-bubble like.  When the Chinese bubble finally deflates and all the big banks dump their speculative positions this whole chart will deflate wildly into the abyss!  And then we'll re-regulate, but the modern day robber barons will have moved onto their next game.