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Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 3:47 pm Post subject: "Miracle" of Market, including Drug Market |
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Moe:
This is the mircale of HSBC – not the marketplace.
HSBC launders their drug money – we get cheap bananas. Thank you HSBC
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PeakTrader:
The real “mircale” is the efficiency of production and the efficiency of the supply chain from profit maximization.
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Moe:
Yes, that’s exactly how Columbia sold this “mircale” to to HSBC.
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PeakTrader:
Over the past 30 years, one reason the U.S. government prevented millions of American drug users, and prevented trillions of dollars of social costs, is it’s great at raising costs.
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Of course, the U.S. government can also raise social benefits (more than social costs), e.g. a higher minimum wage.
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I suspect, if the U.S. government took over the marijuana market, it wouldn’t take long for the weed to become a luxury good
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