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Re:Fake books sold on Amazon could be used for money laundering by rz2k on Saturday April 28, 2018 @08:55AM (#16947427)
Why is speculating in food bad? Futures markets feature in explanations of why economies without centralized planning are the ones that never have famines.
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Re:Fake books sold on Amazon could be used for money laundering by icebraining on Saturday April 28, 2018 @08:59AM (#16947437)
Like I noted at the bottom, I just used parent's example, I don't necessarily agree with it.
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Re:Fake books sold on Amazon could be used for money laundering by blablabla123 on Saturday April 28, 2018 @09:45AM (#16947602)
Ok this might have been a bad example. I'm aware that Futures historically play a role of an insurance for food producers. Are those then by volume the major part of so called food speculation?
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Re:Fake books sold on Amazon could be used for money laundering by smokeyj on Saturday April 28, 2018 @09:55AM (#16947646)
This HN. Capitalism baaad, UBI goood.
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