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Outrageous fortunes of a commodity trader

Source: Financial Times, 11th February 2011

Several middle-aged American men sit around a breakfast table, eating eggs and sausage, sipping coffee and talking about weather. One notes that snow in North Dakota has buried the winter wheat crop and threatens epic floods in the spring. This leads another to joke that "when the Bible said it rained 40 days and 40 nights, we got a half-inch in Kansas". A third replies: "Wheat is a weed. It's hard to kill."



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