Termyn8or
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FR Actually speculation raises the price of everything you buy. There are no exceptions but some things are worse than others. Think of the commodities trade itself, what are the majjor trades ? Corn, sugar, pork bellies, beef, oil, salt, metals all the way down to steel, the list goes on. However the corn and oil both affect fuel prices and thus affect EVERYTHING else, and some things multiple times as partially assembled or made products are shipped to different locations for further processes. Now step back and look at the big picture. Speculating on essential commodity is buying it up so as to raise the price artificially to make money for nothing. Sounds like stelaing doesn't it ? Wouldn't you like to stop it and put an end to this effective private tax on everything ? It would be so nice, everything would be cheaper and we could all live a bit better and those fatcats wouldn't be eating out our substance quite as fast. Oh it would be so wonderful........ NOT SO FAST. Investments depend on these money for nothing schemes. That means retirement funds. Of course that means "inflation", and as such inflation creates the need to continually make more money. If not, and you just sit on the money you lose money. It is a symbiotic relationship. Don't forget that part of that wealth goes into Granny's cat food budget. The rest is soaked up by those who started making money with money. I have thought this as well as alot of things out, and there is no way out at this point. The only way is a total collapse, and it was always inevitable. It could have been alot longer if not for the abuses, but such a system is not sustainable. It is foolish to pretend it is. If it had never started things would be different. First of all overpopulation would not be as severe. And then we would not have gone to the moon, at least it wouldn't be likely. Of course now we can't even get into orbit and back without help but that's beside the point. That is a whole different dimension in mismanagement. No more space age technology, it is now spy age technology. Your PC wouldn't be as good if it even existed, but what's his name of IBM said once that noone would ever want a computer in their home. We would not have missed it having never had it. Be proud. Everything is money now, there is no morality. McDonald's owners will not eat their product. I bet Monsanto executives do not like corn. If so, they can afford the organic shit. Just like beef farmers who pump their product full of hormones and feed them corn which makes them sick can afford good beef from Argentina. Smart investors make money. The US got on the outs with certain parts of South America and they knew to buy sugar and corn. The sugar prices went up because people got sick of the US' meddling and shit. That created more demand for HFCS which drove up corn. See if you have certain information you can make a bunch of money. When the US attacks Iran, oil will go up. Someone will close Hormutz, shit will happen. When it does (or right before), the smart money is going to buy oil. Not in barrells, but on paper. And you know what ? They are going to use your bank deposits to do it. If they win you get your 1 % APY while THEY make prehaps ten times that. If they lose the government will cover YOUR loss up to a quarter million. If you have more than that put it offshore because the quarter millkion limit is per person, not per account. Yes, the system is just fine. Running like a well oiled machine. It has been for a long time. (I don't know what kind of pun that really is, but it's stuck there) T^T
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