# What would a de-financialized economy look like? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 10, 2025, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-a-de-financialized-economy-look-like/1012815 "2025-01-10T19:40:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 32
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2025, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-a-de-financialized-economy-look-like/1012815/32 "2025-01-10T22:04:29Z")
Well, except for getting a pre-release version of the crop report…and falsely imprisoning Clearance Beeks. But the crop estimates should have been available to ag commodities analysts weeks before the crop report came out. It’s a bit of dramatic artifice necessary for the story but not remotely plausible. And of course someone would come and bail out the Dukes before they got a margin call (which wouldn‘t have happened at the end of the trading day back in the ‘Eighties because of the time it would take to reconcile trades, and I don’t think would even happen today) just as happened with the Hunt Brothers and their attempt to corner the silver market that the plot of this film was very loosely based upon. ETA: here is a better explanation than I could do: > [@Trading Places (Anyone here stock savvy?)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trading-places-anyone-here-stock-savvy/852005/24): > > Disclosure: I haven’t actually seen the movie since it originally came out. I’m running on vague memory and what’s said here. As you say, they’re rich and known. The Duke boys - I just have to say it that way - will be given every possible opportunity to pay up and not lose their status. [quote] My question was more about Louis/Billy Ray: they’re known because they represented the Dukes. But they’re off on their own here. This is their money, so their credit (not the Dukes’) is at issue.… Stranger --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-a-de-financialized-economy-look-like/1012815)._