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.
Interesting. This would be more sensible if it was time-bound. Since the intention was clearly "stop a bad thing someone is doing right now" and not "make this field illegal forever"
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.
samaltman2 · · focus · HN ↗