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Finance allah shmoop what is nynex Sounds like a snooty

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new fusion restaurant in soho doesn't it Well in fact

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it isn't the new york mercantile exchange or the merc

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if you want to sound like an insider is just

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a trading post which covers the basics in the land

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of commodities like gold sugar natural gas cotton and corrupt

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congressmen you can trade them now on a fantasy league

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It's this building here in manhattan right along the hudson

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perfect for anyone second guessing any of their investment decisions

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although in reality there are now zero transactions done inside

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the actual exchange This being the twenty first century and

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all everything is elektronik Those recently is two thousand sixteen

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If you prefer to get your hands feet and soul

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dirty you could head on down to one north end

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avenue hop into the pit there and scream and jest

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iq yah late wildly along with a handful of others

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on the physical trading floor Yeah listen to him scream

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but because investors by and large traded in a trek

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to the exchange with a few clicks on their mac

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well everything is now entirely on the interwebs as they

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call them in the midwest But while the physical location

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today is just houses well webs Yeah you can actually

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trade on the nymex in your underwear It's Kind of 00:01:25.003 --> [endTime] cool

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