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...cebus monkey in the San Diego zoo, says Beach, showed rational business aptitude by offering sticks or pebbles to visitors who were rich in peanuts or candy. The enterprise of this monkey named "Trader" was so successful that he nearly died of overeating. At last he was removed to the controlled economy of an experimental cage and given poker chips to trade with. When he paid out a red chip, he got a bit of orange. A blue chip bought a peanut; a white chip a slice of banana. Green chips were worth a slice of bread (which Trader...
...Trader learned quickly which chips had monkey value. He traded the white (banana) chips oftener than any other. Runner-up: the blue (peanut) chips...
Nevertheless, some businessmen worried over the long-range dangers of the program. In making loans to businesses through the Fondo Industrie Mecaniche, there was grave danger that the government might gain control of so many companies that Free-Trader Einaudi would find he had no course but to set up a state-controlled economy. In this same fashion, Mussolini's state-run holding company (Istituto di Ricostruzione Industriale) had gained control of an enormous part of the economy...
...floor of the Chicago Board of Irade one day last week, a trader idly remarked that he presumed the Government was temporarily out of the market as a buyer of cash wheat. In a few minutes, this bit of gossip was exaggerated into a "report" that the Government would stop buying for 60 days. Although the Government denied the rumor a few a hours later, December wheat dropped 8? a bushel from its peak...
...Many a trader thought that Washington still did not realize how its loose schedules and loose talk upset the markets. Nor did they think the Administration really understood what thin ice it was skating on. Grain dealers testified before the Senate Appropriations Committee that the foreign relief program may leave the U.S. with a dangerously low grain carryover...