Originally Posted by kellen46
Originally Posted by franie
Coffee is going up too. What's next? Chocolate? LOL
Well believe it or not on the news there was a story about some guy who practically cornered the Cacao bean market, and that is what they make chocolate from so.......yes it will go up too
Let's start a real revolution..let's find these guys and take a way their blankets so they have to shiver in the dark. That way they will bribe us with coffee, chocolates and sale priced fabs to make they a warm blankie.
Not a bad idea, but those 'traders' sleep under a blanket not made from cotton but from money, and that warms pretty well.
Luckily, they also live in a house of cards:
People in third world countries where they make all those nice goodies like cotton fabrics for pennies a pound
a) are not stupid and
b) have wireless these days.
Cotton growers in many parts of the world are squeezed to the brink of existence these days, while traders get rich beyond any merit. You think those people who lose the fruit of their labor to bankers and traders are not even angrier than we are (or more desperate)?
People will do the smart thing, get together with some Western entrepreneurs and bypass the official markets.
Just let the prices go up a little more. It will happen, it always does. Where there is opportunity (speak: money), there will be entrepreneurs. Those price spirals always get stopped, especially when working folks get poorer from paycheck to paycheck and the customers have no choice but to stay home.