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November 10, 2011 11:00 am PST
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Understanding McDonald's as a commodities broker with a restaurant sideline: the McRib
Willy Staley's "A Conspiracy of Hogs: The McRib as Arbitrage," is a lyrical, insightful conspiracy theory about the appearance and disappearance of McDonalds's McRib sandwich. Staley argues that the McRib's appearance correlates with falls in the pork futures market, and represents a way for McD's to cash in on cheap pork, representing a kind of [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/0bFqOjd-ukE/understanding-mcdonalds-as-a.html
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