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If by market corrected itself you mean the government intervened then you are correct.

Which is why I'd have a limit that a company would have to have at least 75% American workers to keep it's ability to participate in the American political process- letting a multinational company who has no vested interest in what's best for America have a say in the political process is no different than letting a foreign government participate in the political process.

do you think that it is commonly known? if not it qualifies as news.

yeah but don't beat yourself up too much about it, I'm sure someday you'll break free of your free-market dogma.

No freezer? how about a Walipini?

1000-1500 URLs bought to defend against possible unflattering description! So what's the name of your company it'd be good to know what company is so reprehensible that it has to preemptively limit descriptions of such attributes. Maybe what should have been news was that this is common practice.

The first possible logical inconsistency within the bubble argument is equating money inflows to commodity futures markets with demand. With equally informed market participants, there is no limit to the number of futures contracts that can be created at a given price level. Index fund buying in this situation is no more new demand than the corresponding selling is new supply. Combined with the observation that commodity futures markets are zero-sum games, this implies that money flows in and of themselves do not necessarily impact prices. Prices will only change if new false information emerges that causes market participants to revise their estimates of physical supply and/or demand.- Goldman Sachs and others both hyped up the market by paying for papers hyping commodities as a new investment asset and exaggerating the rate of decline and overall importance of the Cantarell Oil field in Mexico, and civil war concerns in Colombia and Sudan- nice to have an unlimited PR machine [...] The second possible logical inconsistency is to argue that index fund investors artificially raised both futures and cash commodity prices when they only participated in futures markets. Futures contracts are financial transactions that only rarely involve the actual delivery of physical commodities. In order to impact the equilibrium price of commodities in the cash market, index investors would have to take delivery and/or buy quantities in the cash market and hold these inventories off the market. Index investors are purely involved in a financial transaction using futures markets; they do not engage in the purchase or hoarding of the cash commodity not true both Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley had both extensive storage facilities on land and sea(The oil-storage trade is a trading strategy where oil tank owners and companies that lease storage buy oil for immediate delivery and hold it in their storage tanks, then sell contracts for future delivery at a higher price. When delivery dates approach, they close out existing contracts and sell new ones for future delivery of the same oil. The oil never moves out of storage. Trading in this fashion is only successful if the forward market is in "contango", that is if the price of oil in the future also known as forward prices are higher than current prices or spot prices. Storing oil became big business in 2008 and 2009 [1], with many participants - including Wall Street giants such as Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs or Citicorp - turning sizeable profits simply by sitting on tanks of oil.[2] It has been estimated that one in twelve of the largest oil tankers are being used for the storage, rather than transportation of oil,[3] and that if lined up end to end, the tankers would stretch out for 26 miles) again your quotes are weak sauce

It's incredibly hard to compete with industrial farming- pigs, cattle, chickens- part of the reason is the unequal enforcement of regulations, often the little guy gets crushed while the big guys get around or weasels out - I know you have to adapt, at one time my Moms relatives were mostly dairy farmers and now they are mainly in fruits with lots of miniature fruit trees, grapes, melons, and Strawberries. Some of my relatives couldn't maintain themselves with just farming, I don't think any of them have sold their farms but a couple of cousins do more decorative iron work and gunsmithing than farming.

Tom I can't tell in exact quantities how much untreated Syphilis has contributed to your mental deterioration as compared to Sterno drinking and a sclerotic carotid artery but I can be sure they all have had their effect on making you an idiot.

"Williams said there was a time when analysts could look at an indicator such as the number of days that petroleum supplies would meet demand and have a good idea where prices would go. But he said that with the rise of futures trading, which more than tripled leading up to the 2008 energy price surge, that’s no longer the case. Williams can’t say just how much the futures trading alone is pushing up prices. But he estimates that based just on supply and demand, oil prices would be about $20 a barrel lower than they are now. That would amount to $400 million in daily savings on petroleum products in the U.S., and gasoline prices that would be lower by roughly 40 cents a gallon. “It’s absolutely right that in the absence of the index funds that fuel prices would be lower,” he said. Concerns about the 2008 run-up in energy prices, and the role the big firms’ futures trading played in it, were reflected in the financial market reform legislation passed by Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama earlier this year. One provision gave the Commodity Futures Trading Commission the ability to regulate the big firms’ commodity futures trading — something energy users such as the airlines favored. But the proposed trading regulations have been opposed by investment banks, by trade groups representing them and by the CME Group, which owns the New York Mercantile Exchange, where commodity futures are traded." Tom you and Magox continue to be apologists and shills for fraudulent financial fascists and crony capitalist criminals. btw Union people are the finest people on earth and deserve every penny they get not only for their hard productive work but also for their fine character traits.

I'd be fine with farmers joining cooperatives in fact I encourage it- farmers joining Unions is nonsensical like saying what if McDonald franchise owners unionized which is why I brought up farm workers giving you the benefit of the doubt - buy locally MmmK

Tom your quotes were weak and bringing in anything from Goldman Sachs is like bringing the mob to defend racketeering- lets face it, Union people are the Salt of the earth while the finance industry seems to attract those with low moral character - that starts at the bottom with underlings churning the portfolio's of widows for fee's and boiler room pump and dump schemes to every form of fraud with only regulatory capture saving tens of thousands from RICO charges- Just admit that finance today has gone from symbolic with the productive economy to a sucking parasite that threatens to drag not only America but western civilization down.

NE has made better QBs than Fitz look like crap.

Bills front office? better than it was but still not good- our problem is we are in a division with one of the three best run teams in the NFL and the other two while not run by geniuses have an advantage in money and market desirability- my big hope is getting an impact defensive player in the first round, I mean really the Bills percentage of first round busts is starting to get to the point where it looks like conspiracy- just random chance should have given us more impact players among our 1st round picks this decade.

link I'm pretty sure that switch is stuck in the on position.

Farm workers are in unions - you never heard of United farm workers? but lets talk about financial speculation in the food markets that actually caused starvation link instead of your imaginary world where Unions are killing people.

There always seem to be some people who are getting pay they don't deserve "For 2008, nearly 5,000 bonus payments in excess of $1 million were made at “the largest U.S. banks that accepted Treasury aid,” The Wall Street Journal reported." My link

Maybe Luck wants to stay but he would certainly be taking a big financial risk by doing so- right now He's the odds on favorite to be the number one pick overall in what might be the last draft without a rookie pay cap- an injury, or a discovered weakness could knock him down the draft pay ladder and even if he still gets picked number one overall he could face a rookie salary cap- so he taking a big chance by staying in school.

I don't want the Bills to throw a game but with ARI, DET, CIN, and DEN all winning the Bills are back on track to having the Defensive player of their choice.

Agreed this game showed us the difference between not being the worse team in the NFL and being a good team. We could use a better QB but unless you have a deep conviction that a QB in the draft is a franchise guy you get the best defensive player in the draft. We need a couple pass rushers, God smiling on us would be Merriman returning to his days of being a sack machine and getting Fairley in the draft. Moats and Carrington continuing to improve and picking up David Harris in FA. We are in desperate need of a TE and we still need a better RT - Kevin Boss TE and Jared Gaither OT would look good in those spots now the sad thing is even if the Bills have a brilliant off-season they are still probable two steps behind NE.

A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver. With some fava beans, and a nice Chianti

Merry (solar deity myth superimposed on a mystic rabbi)celebration day

our thinking may be within the normal 3 dimensions of space and the dimension of time but the thinking about the universe by physicists is not so limited.

so is thinking that something must have created the universe