> >[Brad, your colleague needs counseling for a bad case of market
> >mysticism. Love the bit about oil futures - was the oil market right
> >at $10 or at $40? Right about what? Ecological risks? Limited
> >supplies? Or just tomorrow's price?]
>
> Just tomorrow's price...
>
> Now IIRC, Varian does not believe that the U.S. government should be
> funding trading pits in which people bet on the likelihood of the
> assassinations of foreign leaders...
ya US leaders would be better.
-gr