[lordnacho]

You have to wonder why the lawmakers didn't use the same logic on all other products. Or at least ags.

Corners happened again later, famously on silver with the Hunt brothers.

[protomyth]

Because most ags, particularly the farmers themselves, started hedging their own crops to make sure they had some predictability. Futures are an important tool these days.

[gowld]

Silver is Ag ;-)