For those who don’t know:<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_Futures_Act" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_Futures_Act(which also banned box office receipt futures)A fun thing is to go on FRED and make a graph with prices from onions and, say, corn to see the differences in volatility.
This has to have been the inspiration for Milo Minderbinder cornering the cotton market in Catch-22, right?
cwal37 · · focus · HN ↗
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_Futures_Act" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_Futures_Act
(which also banned box office receipt futures)
A fun thing is to go on FRED and make a graph with prices from onions and, say, corn to see the differences in volatility.
mauvehaus · · focus · HN ↗