On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Bob Kiss wrote:
> ....is anyone old enough to
> remember the artificially created "coffee shortage" that drove prices up
> with the end result that they never quite returned to their original level?
There was also the time the Hunt brothers cornered the market in silver
(supposedly) and for a few months drove the price of silver nitrate and
paper/film up accordingly. Then the price of silver dropped, down to
about $4/oz, but the price of film & paper kept going up. The claim was
made that it was due to energy prices. I think more likely it was just
because they could.
J.
Received on Fri Jul 30 00:32:19 2004
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