A little afternoon fun in honor of the drop today in OJ futures – seems like FL’s crops will escape the worst of the cold snap. The epic scene from the end of 1983′s Trading Places: Orange juice futures contracts retreated Thursday after much of Florida avoided a potentially devastating freeze overnight. Orange juice contracts [...]
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Gold Is Passe’ – Roubini’s Got Cash For Spam
December 12th, 2009 · 2 Comments · commodities
From Facebook – Nouriel Roubini: if you want protection against inflation risk stock up on Spam that you can at least eat rather than Gold that has no intrinsic value or use For the full story, see roubini.com (if you have access) – Roubini is launching his rechristening of the RGE Monitor with a bang, [...]
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With Gold At Record Highs, Getting Cash For It Is Played Out
November 19th, 2009 · 5 Comments · commodities, win
In a recession, the only biznezz is srs biznezz, sometimes. And seriously, taking your gold to one of those middlebrow house parties where someone gives you cash for it and then the hostess tries to show you a Pampered Chef catalog isn’t going to cut it when the yellow metal is pushing $1200 an ounce. [...]
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Measuring Our GDP, In Sheep, On Facebook
September 2nd, 2009 · 7 Comments · commodities
If you’re not on Facebook, I’ll give you a little bit of background: what you thought was a social network has basically turned into an online gaming platform, where people have fake Mafia families, fake restaurants, fake pillow fights, and… get this… fake farms. Yes, the most popular thing to do on Facebook is to [...]
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Henri Zogaib: Ponzi Was A Race Car Driver
July 22nd, 2009 · 4 Comments · commodities, fail
That’s Zogaib on the right. The fellow on the left actually has a judgment against Zogaib at this point for defrauding him of about half a mil; we are happy to protect his identity. Your latest alleged Ponzi schemer: Henri Zogaib, a race-car driver turned iron-ore salesman: A professional race car driver is the prime [...]
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