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2012-02-24 Iraq

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Posted by Dar 2012-02-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 "If we've got some rice to sell, they ought to pay a premium for it just because this is the country that freed them."

That sounds like democratic values and ideas. We invaded you to make you a free democracy of sorts (probably a failed experiment), but forget capitalism and the free market.

I think maybe the rice business is not such a good idea when your competition is, well, all of Asia. Might be time to diversify a little.

Posted by jefe101 2012-02-24 02:11|| 2012-02-24 02:11|| Front Page Top

#2 Rice is a commodity that is restricted just about everywhere in the world. Production quotas, tariffs, bans, price fixing, etc. In such a rigid market, any change will strongly rock the boat.

Posted by Anonymoose 2012-02-24 08:13|| 2012-02-24 08:13|| Front Page Top

#3 Rice is a fungible commodity, it will sell just fine on the open market. There is not a glut of unused food in this world, rice is easy enough to sell on the open market. Still, it is a pain to lose a steady customer and have to hock your goods on the world wide marketplace.

Posted by bigjim-CA 2012-02-24 13:22|| 2012-02-24 13:22|| Front Page Top

#4 Apparently they believe we are attempting to corrupt their bodily fluids.

Posted by crosspatch 2012-02-24 16:15|| 2012-02-24 16:15|| Front Page Top

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