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submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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alt-text: Woman ordering food (photo): “I would like to buy a hamburger for the same price that it was 2 hours ago.”

Cashier (sketched): “Sir, this is a Wendy's”

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Steps to creating your own "Bullish Burger" Stock Market

  1. Bulk order just before peak,
  2. Resell those orders as demand rises.
  3. Profit
[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

that might not be entierly legal,
you cant legally sell onions on the futures market since 1958

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Huh, son of a bitch. Can't wait to use this one

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_Futures_Act

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

The Onion Futures Act is a United States law banning the trading of futures contracts on onions as well as "motion picture box office receipts"

Lol. Wut?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

in 1956 some guy sneakily trough shell companys and such stuff, used the futures market to controll 98% of the onion suply and screwed over a lot of people.

the onion futures act was the goverments absolute brilliant idea for a fix.

i have no idea what the box office receipts thing is about

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Yeah no, I get the Onion thing, it's usually taught in collegiate finance courses... but the Box Office thing threw me off. Apparently the MPAA lobbied to have it added. I am just amused that it's attached to Onion Law.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

From a couple minutes on Wikipedia, it was added to the law as part of Dodd-Frank in 2010, which overhauled the US financial system after the recession. The MPAA lobbied heavily on it