On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 05:28:29PM -0300, Juan Garofalo wrote: > > > --On Monday, March 24, 2014 2:56 PM -0500 Troy Benjegerdes > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Why in the world do we need a centralized trade matching engine when the > > commodities (corn) and customers (grocery stores) are fundamentally > > distributed anyway? > > Good question. > > > > > > > > I mean, I've got to have *something* to do while the babysitting the GPS > > guidance system .... > > Isn't gps completely centralized and run by you-know-who?
You-know-who costs me significantly less money than JpGoldKochMorgan's centralized high-frequency trading. Besides you-know-who would rather tax the middle class to buy fuel from me than have to send more kids to drive fuel tankers over IEDs.
