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by tedunangst 1941 days ago
So consumers shouldn't be allowed to sign forward contracts in a deregulated market?
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Doesn't matter. If people sign those contracts then the floating prices would go even higher for the people who didn't, or the people who made the contracts would start offering to pay people money to shed demand (because they're still paying the floating price for what they're reselling), and the seller risk of having one of those contracts might correspondingly be high enough that people avoid them due to high fixed prices.