Topic: Just commodities

[patentlymn]

I went out again to cub in Fridley MN. Cheap corned beef! yay!
Salted butter was gone. Tons of chicken. Bought premade lasagna and cinnamon breads.
Liquor store has vodka.

[John Florida]

 

[Libertas]

As Vinny would say I got enough food to handle five assholes a sitting...and enough booze to kill me dozens of times over...but the latter is almost constantly universally true.   

[Libertas]

The Tylerz got Putin pudding all over their faces again...

https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/oil-deal-verge-collapse-russia-balks-proposed-us-production-cut

...the DOE wants its cake and eat it too?  Really, so you and your Master were expecting the US to lead the pack in cuts so you could slip in a few extra millions barrels to the market when the price rose?  Your typical maneuver (since we both know the Saudi's never honor jack shyt...all the Gulf States do is take turns breaking agreements) didn't work because unlike the Muzzie Communist Bi-sexual Halfrican Obama this President knows BS when he sees it!

[Libertas]

Bwuuhaahaaa!  And Mexico blows up the Putin scheme!

https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/late-thriller-opec-production-cut-deal-collapses-after-mexico-balks

Trump's fault too, eh Vlad?

 

[paulh]

Three grocers two days in a row, shelves empty. Mandatory face mask to enter

[Libertas]

I just wore med-grade gloves...shelves fine except for paper products (only found napkins), Vit-C, bleach...everything else was available.

[ToddF]

My wife was in Taiwan during SARS.  She retained her stash of medical grade masks.     Who could have known?

So I wear one in the store, now.  Found everything I needed in HyVee a little while ago.  Costco now has plenty of TP.  Still no Perdu chicken nuggets.   

[Libertas]

My wife was in Taiwan during SARS.  She retained her stash of medical grade masks.     Who could have known?

So I wear one in the store, now.  Found everything I needed in HyVee a little while ago. Costco now has plenty of TP.  Still no Perdu chicken nuggets.   

Perfect timing.

[Pandora]

My wife was in Taiwan during SARS.  She retained her stash of medical grade masks.     Who could have known?

So I wear one in the store, now.  Found everything I needed in HyVee a little while ago.  Costco now has plenty of TP.  Still no Perdu chicken nuggets.   

You don't need no gawdam chicken nuggets.  What'r'yu six?  Buy a breast, make your own nuggets.

My friend tells me she's after buying tater tots.  "Tater tots?", I say, " what's wrong with you?  You're fifty++ years old; what's up with the tater tots?"  She tells me she likes 'em with her fish sticks.  I'd've liked to strangle her.

On the other hand, she was taken to the hospital tonight for surgery, her weight-loss bypass got perforated.  Please, please, pray for my friend, Chelle.

[ToddF]

Low carb, low calorie, tasty instant microwave snack.  My 235 pound self preferred Doritos, but my 160 pound self digs the nuggets.

[Libertas]

Tots...love 'em...in Tater-Tot hot dish...er casserole...whatever!     My 245lb self liked it...and my 225lb self still likes it! 

Brother had gastro bypass years ago...hope Chelle's surgery goes well.   

[John Florida]

  Please the wife has bee after hash browns for two weeks and I have 10 pounds of taters in the pantry.

    for Chelle

[Libertas]

Gold back over $1700...Central Banks buying more...combined with a diluted dollar by monetizing trillions in C-19 bailouts normally a bad combination...but the collapse of consumer prices in gas, food, etc is mitigating that...but for the long term if this economy doesn't re-launch well...

 

[paulh]

Had a $2400 surprise in my bank acct this AM, too bad there's nothing open

[ToddF]

Spending my welfare check locally.  Had an antenna installed in the attic, two days ago, and have a window that's in the process of being manufactured.  Tim Walz may not approve, but

 

[Libertas]

If he doesn't like that he'll really not like my plans...   

[ToddF]

Well that was an interesting ride...

I wonder if Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd were down on the oil trading floor, working their magic?

[Pablo de Fleurs]

Well that was an interesting ride...

I wonder if Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd were down on the oil trading floor, working their magic?

Not much magic to work . . . the floor just dropped out of the oil industry ($1.03/barrel) -- MASSIVE repercussions . . .

Reality just made a major shift

Oil Armageddon

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(Bloomberg) -- Of all the wild, unprecedented swings in financial markets since the coronavirus pandemic broke out, none has been more jaw-dropping than Monday’s collapse in a key segment of U.S. oil trading.

The price on the futures contract for West Texas crude that is due to expire Tuesday fell into negative territory -- minus $37.63 a barrel. The reason: with the pandemic bringing the economy to a standstill, there is so much unused oil sloshing around that American energy companies have run out of room to store it. And if there’s no place to put the oil, no one wants a crude contract that is about to come due.

Underscoring just how acute the concern is over the lack of immediate storage space, the price on the futures contract due a month later settled at $20.43 per barrel. That gap between the two contracts is by far the biggest ever.

[John Florida]

  I bet some traders got their asses handed to them.  Wasn't Chicago Gabe a futures trader?