The losses would be diffuse. In the commodities markets you have a blend of speculative action and real economic activity. The blend is different based on the contract as well. The emini futures are pure financial engineering so it’s harder to track directly to the underlying economic activity.

Wti is much easier. Lots of real economic actors that produce or consume oil are active in those markets.

To be clear when people quote the billion dollar number they are quoting the notional value.

Those contracts have between 8-15x leverage depending on margin rules.

This doesn’t remove the corruption problem but it brings the number down into realistic values. And while the volumes were odd for the overnight they aren’t that strange for normal hours trading.

It can. Orders on the cme are tied to a specific trader id.

The question is not if it can be investigated it’s if it will be and what will happen with the findings.

The first thing the Trump admin did in its second term was gut the anticorruption offices and the cftc.

Environments where it’s hard to install and configure cli tools and where you want oauth flows.

That is mcp for coding agents is dumb. For gui apps installed at non-cli using non-permissive endpoints it makes a lot of sense.

That allows the illegal tax to continue. The tax has to be returned to the people it was collected from, and that’s the importers.

Otherwise it’s the same as just leaving the illegal tax in effect.

Did Lawnmower Man document Bunks early career at the fbi which he had to resign in scandal before joining the Baltimore police?

I didn’t think so.

It’s not a story driven movie, it’s a movie about a stylized subculture and youth. Compare it to Dazed & Confused instead of Chinatown.

The point is to make you want to hang out with those people on those days and it does that tremendously well.

If you disagree your a flake.