No future for onions
Now, I don't know if half the members here will find this half as amusing as I do, but, at worst it will help dilute the politics slightly. Although I wonder what do US prez candidates think about this. Perhaps this is the push the economy needs...
Yep, onion traders and Congress in the same sentence.Originally Posted by Article
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Re: No future for onions
Good Lord. The very purpose of futures markets is to allow those who need a certain commodity to hedge, which should by definition reduce volatility. I would hate to see what would happen to the spot price of light sweet crude if trading in oil futures was all of a sudden banned.
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Re: No future for onions
Makes you think how clever congress is. Or that the farmers should have asked an economist before lobbying for something they have no idea about.
Perhaps, the world's food problems would be resolved if the next US prez allowed onion futures again. Who knows?
Managing perceptions goes hand in hand with managing expectations - Masamune
Pie is merely the power of the state intruding into the private lives of the working class. - Beirut
Re: No future for onions
I would love onions to become extinct. If I could go back in time and kill 1 person, it would be the man or woman who first cultivated the Onion. If global warming and rising sea levels coupled with nuclear holocaust are the only way to do that - I welcome the developments.
I will revel in the unravellings of your unholy commodity value, demon spawn!
Last edited by ICantSpellDawg; 07-09-2008 at 16:00.
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Re: No future for onions
Despite Tuffs vegetable xenophobia, I like onions. So here is a development.
Managing perceptions goes hand in hand with managing expectations - Masamune
Pie is merely the power of the state intruding into the private lives of the working class. - Beirut
Re: No future for onions
Vegetable ethnic cleansing to be more precise.
Speculation was "Banned". Maybe they should try Lenin and Lincoln's idea?
"That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there."
-Eric "George Orwell" Blair
"If the policy of the government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court...the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned the government into the hands of that eminent tribunal."
(Lincoln's First Inaugural Address, 1861).
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