This flood of cheap money, so the argument goes, has sent investors into hard assets, especially oil.
Rubin and his aides worried about a flood of immigrants and about losing the argument for free trade.
Even Shyam Aggarwal, the chief executive of the Rajdhani exchange, says futures trading in food products should be banned, at least temporarily.Broadly, these men all make the same argument: that the flood of money from pension funds, hedge funds and the like that has poured into commodity futures in recent years is distorting spot markets for physical commodities.
For some reason these Republicans seem to think they are winning the argument, despite a flood of opinion polls and disapproval of many in their own party.
If the flood of Iraqi oil continued indefinitely, goes the argument, the Saudis would have no choice but to abandon price (and, with it, their allies in OPEC with higher costs and smaller reserves) and go for volume instead.
Russ Herman, arguing for his home district in New Orleans, was given a comparatively magisterial three minutes, and his argument incorporated the Mississippi River flood of 1927, the Roman jurist Cicero and a quote from Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure".
None of the stock arguments that claim that the flood of private money into public hands does not corrupt our politicians hold water or anything else.
He then moved on without argument, promising to slow his flood of words to ease the burden on the interpreters.
His chapter on language as a kluge, full of grammatical and linguistic incongruities, is particularly strong, although his basic argument is almost drowned in a flood of examples.
As someone brought up in the full flood of the rights revolution, I can't see any argument in favour of making life even slightly harder for somebody who feels their gender is fluid.
