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"Vic Smith" wrote in message
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On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:09:39 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
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"Vic Smith" wrote in message
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On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:49:24 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
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Mind if I ask what business you're in? I'm asking because I think I
can
demonstrate how YOUR business could be meddled with by people who are
totally unrelated to your business.

I'm in the retirement business, participating.
And "people" are still in my face!
I just ignore them, though.
Well, not really. The price of Cheerios ****es me off.
Ethanol taking oat acreage out of production.
Probably other factors to complain about too.
I could go on and on.
But go ahead and grind your axe.
I'll comment on the sparks if I can.

--Vic

What was your business before retirement?


IT - analyst.


OK. I'm going to take the right financial industry people and regulators
to lunch a few dozen times, bribe as necessary, and create a new futures
market involving computer hardware. Just like the oil commodities
markets, we will allow people to fiddle in it even if they have
absolutely no connection to the computer industry. They will just be
there to gamble. Within 6 months, computers of all kinds will become so
prohibitively expensive that corporations will not be able to own more
than just one or two, for use by the head honchos. Most of your IT
department will be out of work.

Price fluctuations for computers will be based on such things as:

"fear of renewed violence in Baghdad"

"unseasonal amounts of rain in Korea"

....or just about any other drunken reason which frightens the amateur
traders in the commodity you depend on.

That's what's happening with oil. You don't believe it yet. But, it's
absolutely true. It doesn't ***ALL*** the price swings, but it explains
some of it.

Not entirely true or untrue. But I would also like to point out the
devaluation of value of the greenback to the yuan, yen, euro, loonie,
pound etc. Currency dilution has a lot to do with the energy inflation
you are seeing.

And yes, it affects the importation costs of computer parts from
Taiwan/China. It now takes more green backs. About the same in other
currencies.

Take a world view, not a view that has Washington politics as the pivot
point of the universe.



The vast majority of raw materials and finished products are not ****ed with
by commoditity exchanges which involve amateur investors who are unrelated
to the industry using the raw materials. Why do you suppose that is?