Cheese indeed! Kraft, a near-monopsonistic buyer uses an exchange-traded settlement price as benchmark for physical market purchases from dis-aggregated (mostly small) producers. The temptation to press the exchange settlement price down (despite Kraft being almost exclusively a purchaser) to lower their acquisition costs on their much larger physical contracts was simply too great. In Japan, this would have resulted in executives supplicating themselves in the deepest bows. In Crony Kraft, it results in a fine, and then a return to business as usual. Where's Preet Bharara when you need him?!?!?
Cheese?
ReplyDeleteCheese indeed! Kraft, a near-monopsonistic buyer uses an exchange-traded settlement price as benchmark for physical market purchases from dis-aggregated (mostly small) producers. The temptation to press the exchange settlement price down (despite Kraft being almost exclusively a purchaser) to lower their acquisition costs on their much larger physical contracts was simply too great. In Japan, this would have resulted in executives supplicating themselves in the deepest bows. In Crony Kraft, it results in a fine, and then a return to business as usual. Where's Preet Bharara when you need him?!?!?
ReplyDeleteCut flowers are traded in The Netherlands:
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https://www.floraholland.com/en/about-floraholland/visit-the-flower-auction/aalsmeer/
Begging to differ...
ReplyDeleteSovereign debt markets under QE:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-20/qes-are-cake-full-walkthru-how-bond-traders-manipulate-daily-pomo
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-26/two-years-later-larry-fink-confirms-zero-hedge-was-right
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