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Re:The Folks Who Sell Your Corn Flakes are Acting Like Goldm... by cynicalkane on Friday September 13, 2013 @11:47AM (#6381219)
The point of the commodities market is to provide hedging instruments for commercial producers and consumers. It's difficult to imagine the commodities market being useful if you ban every potential customer and leave nothing but speculators.
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Re:The Folks Who Sell Your Corn Flakes are Acting Like Goldm... by MartinCron on Friday September 13, 2013 @11:54AM (#6381267)
Right. I was responding to the concept of insider trading in general, even after reading the article, I don't feel that I know nearly enough about the arcane commodities market to speak to that scenario.
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