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You know you’ve always wondered…

Farmer Brown here again.  October is off to a brutal start for the farm commodities.  Yesterday all of the agriculture contracts sold off hard after a blistering September rally – on average the soft commodities were down 2.8% on the session. But nothing compares to Friday’s drop in corn prices.  The December 2011 Corn contract…

Waddell & Reed didn’t cause the Flash Crash any more than Waddell & Reed kidnapped the Lindberg Baby, shot JR Ewing on Dallas, took out Tupac in Las Vegas or stole the cookie from the cookie jar. They simply tripped the landmines that were already in place (and still are to this day).

Some answers.

This actually goes on.

Some things should cost money.

Links and assorted observations

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