The U.S. government said Monday it is immediately placing a 17% duty on most fresh Mexican tomatoes after negotiations ended without an agreement to avert the tariff.

  • TryingSomethingNew@lemmy.world
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    3 个月前

    And who will be working those farms? But I’m sure somebody in the administration figured a way to short a stock involving it, somehow

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        3 个月前

        Its not a bad thing to allow highschool kids to experience real working conditions. Americans also need to see for themselves that working on a farm isn’t the horrible torture everyone acts like it is.

    • Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Nitpick: this would be shorting a future, not a stock.

      Futures are typically “physical” goods like oil, bananas, cheese, maple syrup, etc. there are also other types of futures.

      These commodities futures were originally created in the 1600s in Japan for rice, but they got their mass appeal in Chicago in the late 1800s.

      The trading floors in Chicago are pretty cool and have a ton of interesting history.