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Mar 20, 2022Liked by Jeffrey Carter

You might be partly correct

So you obviously don’t know what a merchant bank does for producers

Cash and carry

Or

Hedging commodities

I produce 1 contract of nickel

I hedge 1 contract at lme

Now if I’m a large producer I give my warehouse receipt to jpm they give me a line of credit for the initial margin and will loan me money for variation on the hedge

Basic hedging 101 for commercial entities

Generally in a large squeeze (I have experience with the government on how to break squeezes)

Most banks at a point can’t lend any more money to the client or the exchange raises margins

This is the flaw in futures market

The shorts or hedgers will have to cover

Not the longs they have plenty of cash

You can figure out the rest

Yes much collusion

First the squeezer

Then special interests at the exchange level (Jeff you were one of the only honest guys on the board )

Are to blame

Also incompetence

Like when the cme defaulting on seg funds suing mf global bankruptcy

Btw I found the money for the FBI

So it always isn’t what it seems and the truth nowadays is hard to find .

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Great article! Thanks Jeff...as an old econ major, I love seeing how this stuff plays out.

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