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”

  • Demosthememes@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    27·
    9 months ago

    Steps to creating your own “Bullish Burger” Stock Market

    1. Bulk order just before peak,
    2. Resell those orders as demand rises.
    3. Profit
    • Kerb@discuss.tchncs.de
      17·
      9 months ago

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

        • Corkyskog
          7·
          9 months ago

          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?

          • Kerb@discuss.tchncs.de
            6·
            9 months ago

            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

            • Corkyskog
              4·
              9 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.

          • kboy101222English
            2·
            9 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