Why We're in ‘Trading Places' Territory
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In the climactic scene in Trading Places — easily the funniest film about commodity trading ever made — Mortimer Duke realizes he has lost his fortune in the day's trading, and screams, 'Turn those machines back on!', thinking that if trading could only start again, things would go back to normal. Larry McDonald of Bear Traps Report offers this as a market analogy:
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