raw prices
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by Chalco Hills
We need more finance and econ articles. (Ok, we need a more realistic economy then maybe it would be more worth talking about, but I'm not holding my breath on that.)
So here's a quick commentary - I check this morning and find that raw material prices for weapons and food (in the USA) are both at .04. I haven't been around nearly as long as some people, but this seems highly unusual to me. So does anyone think this is a long term thing, or is it a temporary distortion?
Weapons raw prices have been slowly coming down for a few months.
Food raw materials have (in my experience) always been lower. The food market is usually more steady because food usage is limited by energy recovery, and usually prices for both finished and raws have only spiked a lot during special events with energy recovery bonuses. Bonuses like that are happening more regularly, maybe that's an influence on the overall trend.
Again, my experience isn't as long as some, and I'm just a simple small business man trying to scrape out a profit in an insane economy. I don't pretend to understand it all. Other thoughts are welcome - I'm mainly just trying to spur a discussion.
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well along time ago creating weapon raws was the fastest money, well the jig got out and now there is too much production of everything (including weapons). Thus everything has a crap price because no one is ever buying anything since their Mu's supply them with what they want... anyone else see the problem?
Capitalism, the law of diminishing returns. This will always happen. Rates of return will go to zero. Even negative because people will supplement their loss with boughten gold. Which is a good thing. It keeps prices low for the conaumer
Are you thinking prices for raw are high? When there is an active has battle people spend and prices rise. Not too many fight for allies. So if USA goes a long time without a battle prices can get rather low. We can see huge price jumps when USA gov spends ots deserve. But because we have full bonuses there is no need for USA gov to spend and money. But if the government would buy weps with tax money there would be significantly less price fluctuations. however everyone has told me this is too risky. The gov stockpiling q7 weps because the admins might add a q8 wep and the q7 become worthless. So we pay more value in taxes than what the government buys in weps during war time. Which is why I am trying to save weps q7 weps. To try to keep the price more stable. But my income is 1/30 of the governments so my impact will be a small one
If weapons prices are higher, I make weapons. When they're lower I make a good income from my WRM alone. It's all how you spend your time and money.