There has been no place to hide since commodities sold off in July.
They don't require commodity manufacture; their costs of deployment and maintenance are hidden from the consumer, who only has to use them.
Unlike Chicago traders who scream out bets on the future prices of orange juice or pork bellies, physical commodity traders negotiate prices and arrange shipments of cargo quietly, keeping their positions well hidden from others.
There has been no place to hide since the July commodity drop.
Severe price drops in commodities eerily replayed the 1920s, when another roaring stock market hid another baby depression in farm and commodities prices.
Riding the coattails of OPEC and hiding behind prices determined on the commodity exchanges they have been able to 'justify' their runaway profits as market driven to an all too acquiescent government and press.
But Ms. Rich is also about living down her past as the wife of Marc Rich, the fugitive commodities trader, who is in hiding in Switzerland.
They were victims of the market forces unleashed by Euro-American settlement—"man's reckless greed," as Hornaday wrote, "his wanton destructiveness"—and their hides became prize commodities in eastern cities and in Europe.
There were few places to hide besides Treasuries and cash during the downturn, as stocks, commodities and bonds of all but the most creditworthy institutions fell.
