Why Trading Onions on Financial Markets is Illegal

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  • @halfasinteresting
    @halfasinteresting  4 роки тому +873

    Go buy any HAI or Wendover merch (no minimums or anything) and get a free month of Nebula, where you can watch our 30-minute long special about bricks, among other, less-refined pieces of content: Standard.tv/HAI or Standard.tv/wendover

  • @joshkahl3576
    @joshkahl3576 4 роки тому +1007

    Banning the sale of onion futures seems like an oddly specific solution to what I imagine could be a more general problem.

    • @JoeyLamontagne
      @JoeyLamontagne 2 роки тому +91

      Then again, politicians are looking for the “what will
      shut them up now” solution instead of “oh shit, this is could be a huge issue”

    • @NooneStaar
      @NooneStaar 2 роки тому +27

      I mean at 5:25 he does say what some of the downsides are of it now.

    • @mortgageapprovals8933
      @mortgageapprovals8933 2 роки тому +14

      What am I missing here? Cuddlebuns owned 98% of onions.
      So just don't buy onions. Onions will rot, supply will drop, market is no longer cornered.

    • @RoundShades
      @RoundShades 2 роки тому +3

      Right? I'm going to do it with oats now. Git had, feds!

    • @RoundShades
      @RoundShades 2 роки тому +18

      @@mortgageapprovals8933, oh, and onions are in several commercial products and restaurant chains. They could collectively vocalize to the customers that they're being ripped off so go complain to law about the lack of onions. But there is a chance that won't work unless every point of sale and every customer gets behind it, and America can be dumb about that although that's pretty much how it works abroad.

  • @cherrypepsi2815
    @cherrypepsi2815 4 роки тому +611

    "He wanted to own all of the onions"
    *my goals are beyond your understanding*

  • @Baul3680
    @Baul3680 4 роки тому +5695

    So what are you in jail for?
    "Murder"
    "Robbery"
    "Trading onions on the stock market"

    • @justsomepersononyoutube9271
      @justsomepersononyoutube9271 4 роки тому +28

      Imao

    • @advisingbob
      @advisingbob 4 роки тому +211

      *moves across the cell to sit next to the murderer*

    • @gunjanshah13
      @gunjanshah13 4 роки тому +60

      @@justsomepersononyoutube9271 Fun Fact :
      Neptune orbits the Sun once every 165 years. Hence, it has orbited the Sun only once since it was discovered.
      ― Edu ASTRONOMY

    • @justsomepersononyoutube9271
      @justsomepersononyoutube9271 4 роки тому +21

      @@gunjanshah13 I knew that years ago

    • @Gussyboy06
      @Gussyboy06 4 роки тому +17

      @@gunjanshah13 did you make a channel just to comment stuff like this

  • @MrHatoi
    @MrHatoi 4 роки тому +5087

    Imagine the unbelievable flex of being able to say "I own every onion in the United States of America."

  • @brumpbo
    @brumpbo 4 роки тому +1959

    Fun fact: this same scheme is literally the only reason diamonds are expensive. Artificial scarcity. The DeBeers corporation pulled this off successfully, unlike Cuddlebuns and his onions.

    • @darnit1944
      @darnit1944 4 роки тому +167

      And also Supreme products. They intentionally opened a few stores, created that scarcity, and take idiots' money who thinks they are rare and superior to normal shirts.

    • @SKyrim190
      @SKyrim190 4 роки тому +163

      @@darnit1944 Supreme is bizarre because there is a loop between the brand trying to get away with more stupid stuff and people consuming it "ironically" (which the brand don't mind at all). They've literally sold bricks with Supreme imprinted for thousands of dollars

    • @darnit1944
      @darnit1944 4 роки тому +86

      @@SKyrim190 They dont sell stupid stuff. They sell brick and people are stupid enough to buy it.
      Remember, if the seller can sell, that means they're not stupid.

    • @SKyrim190
      @SKyrim190 4 роки тому +94

      @@darnit1944 I never called them stupid, I called the stuff they sell stupid

    • @Tobyzguy
      @Tobyzguy 3 роки тому +19

      Gotta love capitalism

  • @KasabianFan44
    @KasabianFan44 4 роки тому +3611

    That is the best thumbnail I have ever seen.

    • @KingMatthewXV
      @KingMatthewXV 4 роки тому +37

      Stonks

    • @gunjanshah13
      @gunjanshah13 4 роки тому +57

      Fun Fact :
      Neptune orbits the Sun once every 165 years. Hence, it has orbited the Sun only once since it was discovered.
      ― Edu ASTRONOMY

    • @kidsmipad8324
      @kidsmipad8324 4 роки тому +12

      Stinks

    • @harsh3624
      @harsh3624 4 роки тому +2

      This is the best comment I have ever seen 👀👀

    • @theunfunny421
      @theunfunny421 4 роки тому

      Hey im not cri Someone Cut a stink onion

  • @lelouchunderground
    @lelouchunderground 4 роки тому +2606

    "Hey, why you don't make a law punishing market manipulation for onions?"
    "Do you mean any market manipulation?"
    "No, only onions..."

    • @josephfox9221
      @josephfox9221 4 роки тому +134

      To be honest, the effect on the onion economy in the long term has been bad.

    • @Freekymoho
      @Freekymoho 3 роки тому +103

      @@josephfox9221 They handled it poorly, but I think we'd all rather go without another Onion King

    • @jambonmusical2689
      @jambonmusical2689 3 роки тому +123

      @@Freekymoho let us all welcome the potato emperor

    • @willwin4744
      @willwin4744 3 роки тому +22

      We do have laws against monopolies our gov is just to corrupt and incompetent to do anything

    • @thegr8malachite370
      @thegr8malachite370 3 роки тому +35

      I'm looking forward to the second coming of the melon lord

  • @bigj3508
    @bigj3508 4 роки тому +2380

    British: "The sun never sets on our empire."
    Vincent: "I own all the onions, even the ones that haven't grown yet."
    British: 🧐

    • @joshKozak
      @joshKozak 4 роки тому +16

      Lol

    • @firstoffproductions1462
      @firstoffproductions1462 4 роки тому +10

      @boris steve YOU FOOL! YOU'VE CREATED MULTI-ONIONS! HE'S EVEN MORE IN CONTROL!

    • @sexygeek8996
      @sexygeek8996 4 роки тому +4

      Me: I hate onions, so you can keep them even if they are free.

    • @vincentmuyo
      @vincentmuyo 4 роки тому

      *Chicago onions.

    • @itismethatguy
      @itismethatguy 3 роки тому +2

      The Sun never rised on their past empire how would it set

  • @mjbgames4963
    @mjbgames4963 3 роки тому +332

    “Why Trading Onions On The Financial Market Is Illegal”
    Because It Made The Investors Cry...

  • @danielbishop1863
    @danielbishop1863 4 роки тому +106

    4:33 At orphanages and public schools:
    "What's for lunch?"
    "Liver and onions, with sides of onion rings and onion soup."
    "Again‽"

    • @fajaradi1223
      @fajaradi1223 3 роки тому +4

      And more!
      Here's deep fried potato skin and onion for dessert!

    • @beyondobscure
      @beyondobscure 7 місяців тому +1

      rare interrobang hours

    • @gwainexe9065
      @gwainexe9065 24 дні тому

      Thanks for making me think about that Monty Python spam skit.😅

  • @JohnFoley1701
    @JohnFoley1701 4 роки тому +2232

    Typical politician move: make the extremely specific thing that just happened illegal to placate one specific lobby rather than addressing the root cause of it.

    • @froidesprit
      @froidesprit 4 роки тому +304

      Heh, root

    • @adrianroed2178
      @adrianroed2178 4 роки тому +359

      because the guy couldn't possibly pull the exact same scheme with potatoes. they don't have enough layers

    • @MicrowaveFanFic
      @MicrowaveFanFic 4 роки тому +102

      alright time to get the grapefruit market, who wants in?

    • @theannoyingfan100
      @theannoyingfan100 4 роки тому +45

      @@MicrowaveFanFic Sorry I already own all the grapefruit and future grapefruit

    • @brumpbo
      @brumpbo 4 роки тому +71

      Probably because those lawmakers have money invested in companies who pull the same scheme on other products, like diamonds.

  • @sirswagger21
    @sirswagger21 4 роки тому +798

    Teacher: "why are you laughing?"
    My brain: Paul -Bunyan- Bonion

    • @heisen-bones
      @heisen-bones 4 роки тому +9

      where food is good (but not too good eh)

    • @cringium
      @cringium 4 роки тому +2

      so little comments compared to likes. we need some onions

    • @sirswagger21
      @sirswagger21 4 роки тому +2

      @@cringium Yeah lol

  • @skeleskele
    @skeleskele 4 роки тому +546

    government:
    Ban onion futures > prevent an individual from controlling a market

    • @tf2keller398
      @tf2keller398 4 роки тому +63

      Government bureaucracy at its finest.

    • @David-lr2vi
      @David-lr2vi 4 роки тому +110

      Also government. Allows plenty of other massive corporations to control and manipulate markets!
      I think Mr Onions problem is that he wasn’t a corporation.

    • @wilsonli5642
      @wilsonli5642 4 роки тому +34

      Yeah that part was weird... were there no existing antitrust legislation that he could have been prosecuted under?

    • @ronrolfsen3977
      @ronrolfsen3977 4 роки тому +6

      @@David-lr2vi I wish my problems earned me about 85 million dollars.

    • @max.the.imperor
      @max.the.imperor 4 роки тому +16

      @@wilsonli5642 I think all antitrust laws are about a company not controlling the market, but not an individual. They just didn't think it was possible. IMHO

  • @Nexnaught
    @Nexnaught 4 роки тому +335

    There's a mistake in the video - according to his Wikipedia page, Vincent Kosuga bought 98% of the available onions in Chicago, not America (as the video states).

    • @eragonawesome
      @eragonawesome 2 роки тому +85

      I choose to (wrongly) believe that Chicago was the only place in the US which had any onions at the time, or at least that it held enough of them that the number would be the same within a rounding error

    • @dunyacaliskan7495
      @dunyacaliskan7495 2 роки тому +61

      That's a frickin massive error wth

    • @eragonawesome
      @eragonawesome 2 роки тому +35

      @@dunyacaliskan7495 it happens, you read something for the number, find the number, and then just skim the rest of the sentence thinking you already know what it says. With the amount of content this team puts out it's a miracle there aren't more errors like this

    • @faroncobb6040
      @faroncobb6040 2 роки тому +52

      Chicago is the primary agricultural commodities exchange in the USA. There probably would have been a small number of onion growers with private contracts to produce onions for local companies, but a huge majority of the available onion supply would have gone through Chicago.

    • @jonatanrullman
      @jonatanrullman 2 роки тому +7

      @@eragonawesome You mean it's a miracle you haven't found more errors like this.

  • @FlavorLab
    @FlavorLab 4 роки тому +554

    Any one else cringe at how these onions are chopped in the stock footage, or that awkward man bun?

    • @SoWhat1221
      @SoWhat1221 4 роки тому +29

      @Mason Bee That's a good way to cut them if you want to make fine, uniform diced onions. First you cut off the bottom, but not the stem. Then you cut them in half across the stem, and then place it flat side down. Then you cut horisontally, almost, but not quite all the way through. Then you do the same vertically along the stem. Finally, you cut it like you're making slices, and the result will be extremely uniform diced onions.
      Of course, if you're not an idiot, you'll peel the onion first.

    • @RabidlyTaboo
      @RabidlyTaboo 4 роки тому +4

      keeping the root bulb on while cutting is supposedly best for people with really sensitive eyes.

    • @imadrifter
      @imadrifter 3 роки тому +1

      But that man bun tho, like why are you in the workplace, whilst also trying to have a man bun? Arrggghhh

    • @its_rasko9126
      @its_rasko9126 3 роки тому

      @@imadrifter do you have a time stamp?

    • @alex-rd9xy
      @alex-rd9xy 3 роки тому

      @@its_rasko9126 2:50

  • @dhara1002
    @dhara1002 4 роки тому +218

    For those wondering, that explanation with Thomas Frank is a reference to the movie, The Big Short. Excellent movie, highly recommend everyone to watch.

    • @nerusaru
      @nerusaru 4 роки тому +3

      Ok, but who is Thomas Frank?

    • @dhara1002
      @dhara1002 4 роки тому +2

      @@nerusaru Another UA-camr

    • @charismaticcatholic1
      @charismaticcatholic1 3 роки тому +3

      Yessss this movie is amazing at explaining the 2008 housing market crash.

  • @mrmimeisfunny
    @mrmimeisfunny 4 роки тому +206

    3:06 I hate how I immediately recognized that number as the root of all evil (square root of 666)

  • @jacobross7443
    @jacobross7443 4 роки тому +1021

    “And his wife calls him cuddlebuns, but that’s only in private”
    To know this I believe Sam is his wife because if they never say that in public how could he know such valuable information

    • @AR-Rehman98
      @AR-Rehman98 4 роки тому +10

      BURNN

    • @equaius893
      @equaius893 4 роки тому +70

      and he called him cuddlebuns just a second later

    • @moldveien1515
      @moldveien1515 4 роки тому +7

      Beacuse he is in the illuminati beacuse of his youtube gazillions together with 5 minute crafts.

    • @harsh3624
      @harsh3624 4 роки тому +9

      That because of spies. Sam is part of the CIA.

    • @theincrediblehulk2865
      @theincrediblehulk2865 4 роки тому +1

      Interesting...

  • @AnishKumar-es1xr
    @AnishKumar-es1xr 4 роки тому +23

    -"Total onion domination"- "Total Domi-onion"

  • @ribbontoast
    @ribbontoast 3 роки тому +19

    I'm amazed that even with owning ALL THE ONIONS and executing a literal supervillain scheme this man was still nowhere a billionaire adjusted for inflation.

    • @James-vc1kc
      @James-vc1kc 2 роки тому +3

      Because as other comments have corrected, he owned 98% of all unions in Chicago, not the U.S.

  • @9734522
    @9734522 4 роки тому +565

    If it's onions this should obviously be forbidden!
    But for life saving medications it's ok. Except the part where prices fall again.

    • @jessemonzione
      @jessemonzione 4 роки тому +35

      *cries in American*

    • @michaelmoses8745
      @michaelmoses8745 4 роки тому +2

      Praise kek. Prices no go down.

    • @Minecraftian2345432
      @Minecraftian2345432 4 роки тому +18

      I don't think you can buy futures for medicine. Like, not in regards to law, I just don't think those are a thing. American inflated drug prices are a result of patent law, anticompetitive legal restrictions, a high barrier to approval by the FDA, partially socialized healthcare, insurance chicanery, foreign price controls, and some other things. I guess you could buy all the stroke medicine or something and then jack up the prices, but I don't think any third party has managed to do that. Also, unlike seasonal crops, manufactured goods will continue to be produced, so unless there is an expected spike in demand you won't really be able to control the price, and you won't make money from trying to corner the market.

    • @9734522
      @9734522 4 роки тому +16

      @@Minecraftian2345432 You don't have to buy the medicine, you simply buy patents and companys.
      Remember Martin Shkreli? And that's just a relativly small fish.

    • @dokatmasali3666
      @dokatmasali3666 4 роки тому +6

      The funny thing is if he hadn't shorted and kept the system running, he could have profited much more and establish himself like De beers in the diamond market

  • @advisingbob
    @advisingbob 4 роки тому +2746

    Capitalism: "Am I a joke to you?"
    Capitalists: "Yes."

  • @vicentegambini8907
    @vicentegambini8907 4 роки тому +443

    Imagine going to a party of multi-millionaires and when they ask you how you made your money you tell them ''onions''

    • @krishnar1182
      @krishnar1182 4 роки тому +41

      I had a classmate whose father was a "Porta-Potty" millionaire. Lots of jokes, but money is money.

    • @theantipope4354
      @theantipope4354 4 роки тому +3

      Okay, but onions aren't as dumb as pork bellies.

    • @BlueStateRedHeart
      @BlueStateRedHeart 4 роки тому +2

      @@krishnar1182 same

    • @No-xw7mo
      @No-xw7mo 4 роки тому +4

      Millionaire parties tend to have a surplus of cocaine and children laying about.

    • @jonathansykes4986
      @jonathansykes4986 4 роки тому +2

      As opposed to today. Streaming. UA-cam. Porn.

  • @dydlus
    @dydlus 3 роки тому +23

    I swear to God, i had an economics test in October of 2020 where one of the tasks was "Determine the price and supply that leads to economic equilibrium on the onion market". Then again, one of the possible answers for "A monopoly is a market in which..." was "...old people are given things for free", so maybe it's just a coincedence.

  • @AverytheCubanAmerican
    @AverytheCubanAmerican 4 роки тому +72

    Don’t forget Funyons, the onion snack found in every bodega
    Also that thumbnail is a masterpiece

    • @bryanlasermagiktyler3132
      @bryanlasermagiktyler3132 3 роки тому +1

      well funyuns aren't actually onions they just have some onion flavors spray on them they're actually corn

  • @karim1485
    @karim1485 4 роки тому +217

    The Abbreviation for "Total Onion Domination" would be TOD, which means 'Death' in German

  • @pawelodziomek4908
    @pawelodziomek4908 4 роки тому +749

    Welcome to the gang kid!
    "We got Stealing Steve, Murdering Mike, and Crimes Johnson"
    "w-what did Crimes Johnson do?"
    "he traded onions on the stock market"

    • @yksisolttu
      @yksisolttu 4 роки тому +14

      He must be serving a life sentence

    • @neooblisk0084
      @neooblisk0084 4 роки тому +6

      @@yksisolttu Death row actually

    • @murilovsilva
      @murilovsilva 3 роки тому +6

      But don't call Crimes "Cuddlebuns", he hates that.

  • @__hjg__2123
    @__hjg__2123 4 роки тому +132

    Good video... I'm surprised you didn't mention the Onion Act had a weird tie-in that ALSO *prohibited dealings in motion picture box office receipts* or onion futures

    • @imveryangryitsnotbutter
      @imveryangryitsnotbutter 4 роки тому +34

      Hollywood movies and onion futures. Name a more iconic duo, I'll wait.

    • @ssmuggler1wizerd881
      @ssmuggler1wizerd881 4 роки тому

      lmfao

    • @BSJinx
      @BSJinx 4 роки тому +7

      The part prohibiting dealings in motion picture box office receipts was added to the law in 2010 as part of the Dodd-Frank Act. The original law only dealt with onions.
      From Dodd-Frank: (a) IN GENERAL.-Section 1a of the Commodity Exchange Act
      (7 U.S.C. 1a) is amended- (4) in paragraph (9) (as redesignated by paragraph (1)),
      by striking ‘‘except onions’’ and all that follows through the period at the end and inserting the following: ‘‘except onions (as provided by the first section of Public Law 85-839 (7 U.S.C. 13-1)) and motion picture box office receipts (or any index, measure, value, or data related to such receipts), and all services, rights, and interests (except motion picture box office receipts, or any index, measure, value or data related to such receipts) in which contracts for future delivery are presently or in the future dealt in.’’ So don't blame Ford or Cuddlebuns for that.

  • @simonfleming6109
    @simonfleming6109 3 роки тому +14

    Gee I wonder why this chestnut got recommended during the wallstreetbets fiasco...

  • @bryanwindham4701
    @bryanwindham4701 3 роки тому +112

    Traders can try all the strategies they see on UA-cam. But I can tell for a fact most will still lose money due to improper knowledge on how the liquidity providers manipulate the market charts

    • @hansonw5409
      @hansonw5409 3 роки тому +8

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    • @saskiaheron1403
      @saskiaheron1403 3 роки тому

      I know for a fact that if I had invested in stock years ago it would have save up a lot now but nothing is too late to invest in, everyone started from somewhere stock is great

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      @haugenhumphrey687 3 роки тому +2

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      @jerimahiawelthy4334 3 роки тому +1

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      @joryhenrika1968 3 роки тому

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  • @Riverbend1752
    @Riverbend1752 4 роки тому +179

    "I can guarantee an HAI sticker will cost $3.00 now and $3.00 tomorrow."
    Okay, how much will the price go up on Thursday?

    • @flp322
      @flp322 4 роки тому +5

      Well, if you buy an HAI sticker future now, you can be guaranteed the price won't go up.

  • @ronan5228
    @ronan5228 4 роки тому +34

    3:07
    Square root of 666 in case anyone else was wandering

  • @raphaeldagamer
    @raphaeldagamer Рік тому +1

    I cannot convey how much I appreciate that reference to The Big Short now that I've seen the movie.

  • @joeylawn36111
    @joeylawn36111 4 роки тому +18

    Another interesting related food story: The Great Salad Oil Swindle of the early 1960's.

  • @sarmadali7191
    @sarmadali7191 4 роки тому +377

    "This video is made possible by me"
    Yes, finally!
    "..and Nebula"
    -_-

    • @theincrediblehulk2865
      @theincrediblehulk2865 4 роки тому +12

      Luckily it was not skillshare.

    • @LastBastion
      @LastBastion 4 роки тому +17

      Well, technically he made the nebula....

    • @Tornxx
      @Tornxx 4 роки тому +1

      @@Sean-of9rs yeah but surely he earns enough by the videos and doesn't need a sponsorship every single video

    • @deadmansfire
      @deadmansfire 4 роки тому +1

      @@Tornxx Nebula is a platform where these youtubers can upload their videos without fear of demonetizing. And if more people are subscribed there, the creators will have move freedom in topics and content

    • @something7853
      @something7853 4 роки тому +3

      @@Tornxx Well at least how I see it is the videos that Sam puts out aren't longer than 10 minutes for the most part and because of that the amount of money that he can earn from one video is limited so sponsors are always welcomed. Also we have to remember that Sam like us is a person who need to pay rent, eat food, pay for equipment for production, hire script writers and many other things that I didn't list.

  • @MartyFox
    @MartyFox 4 роки тому +45

    You left out one of the most interesting parts of this story: the Onion Futures Act also prohibits futures trading on movies

  • @funafull1
    @funafull1 4 роки тому +80

    I've watched this entire video and im still not convinced this isn't some late April Fools Day joke

    • @AndreaZzzXXX
      @AndreaZzzXXX 4 роки тому +11

      me too ! but I had check Wikipedia and ... apparently is true :-)

  • @HowMoneyWorks
    @HowMoneyWorks 3 роки тому +3

    Could you imagine getting a call from the IRS? "sir.... you need to pay the capital gains on your.... onions."

  • @Nhatanh0475
    @Nhatanh0475 2 роки тому +4

    0:53 I like Half as Interesting sense of humor.

  • @JesusGarcia-st1ef
    @JesusGarcia-st1ef 4 роки тому +17

    "Sour Apples that make you cry" you got me with that

  • @kalebrhea5822
    @kalebrhea5822 4 роки тому +7

    The brick facade is totally worth the price of admission! It’s so hilarious that I have watched it 4 additional times just to share it with some of my friends and family members

  • @Huntracony
    @Huntracony 4 роки тому +69

    So, rather than taking this example of a flaw in capitalism and making it illegal to buy up entire markets, they decided that this is a problem with onions somehow and made farmers' lives more difficult. Great job.

    • @thomashajicek2747
      @thomashajicek2747 Рік тому +8

      Politicians can’t piss off their wealthy owners, I mean donors, who do this all the time but are just more quiet about it.

  • @FreeToBe339
    @FreeToBe339 4 роки тому +2

    Nebula plays on your phone the same way music does. Plays when it's closed. I used UA-cam all the time but it's $14 a month for UA-cam red. $3 a month for nebula. Immaculate. I'm honestly so impressed

  • @josephestebacon
    @josephestebacon 4 роки тому +18

    Says: French Onion Soup
    Shows: Soup with Potatos and Carrots

    • @niarkman6999
      @niarkman6999 2 роки тому

      tbh, the french onion soup's main constituant is bread

  • @ianthefirst2111
    @ianthefirst2111 4 роки тому +148

    The stock traders must have not needed more crying in their lives.

    • @harsh3624
      @harsh3624 4 роки тому +4

      They do when the police comes to arrest them for trading onion in the black markets.

  • @JonasHamill
    @JonasHamill 4 роки тому +27

    All those poorly chopped onions in the stock footage made me feel so nervous

  • @anzahanifathallah
    @anzahanifathallah 4 роки тому +369

    "capitalism is the most efficient way to distribute resources"
    *one man in the 1950s literally had complete control of all American onions, current and future*

    • @ecpgieicg
      @ecpgieicg 4 роки тому +17

      "Literally"?? Are you one of those people who can't learn outside of listening to jokes? Chicago region only. Chicago =/= "all American".

    • @sirsurnamethefirstofhisnam7986
      @sirsurnamethefirstofhisnam7986 4 роки тому +27

      In capitalism it’s one company owning it all. In socialism it’s the government bureaucracy. Either way it’s just corrupt cronyism to control the market and what people can have/get

    • @incelmagnet1737
      @incelmagnet1737 4 роки тому +3

      Ah yes the onion lord

    • @martind2520
      @martind2520 4 роки тому +37

      ​@@sirsurnamethefirstofhisnam7986
      Maybe the solution is to build an economy that takes the best parts of both systems.
      Crazy, I know!

    • @sirsurnamethefirstofhisnam7986
      @sirsurnamethefirstofhisnam7986 4 роки тому +15

      @@martind2520 I think most people would agree with you but inevitably the question what is the “best” amount of either. And different people have different opinions of that

  • @Critical-Thinker895
    @Critical-Thinker895 4 роки тому +7

    This video has taught me I'm only half as interested in onions as I thought.

  • @hazeemhakim5390
    @hazeemhakim5390 4 роки тому +3

    Reads the title: That is... A question that I never thought I would ask in my life.

  • @kingcookie4714
    @kingcookie4714 4 роки тому +9

    I have a feeling that this guy played a lot of monopoly

  • @hadinossanosam4459
    @hadinossanosam4459 4 роки тому +5

    The Soviet onion: where Vincent Kasuga makes the onions cry

  • @horseradish302
    @horseradish302 4 роки тому +3

    Shorting involves borrowing stock from someone else (for a small fee), selling it, then buying it back later for a (hopefully) lower price and returning it to the original owner. I'd be interested how you can both corner the market (i.e. own all the stock) then short it (i.e. borrow the same stock)

    • @thavideomaker
      @thavideomaker 2 роки тому

      Futures are not stocks, the futures contracts can be created/destroyed and the open interest and notional value can be greater than the supply of the underlying physical asset at settlement. This is part of the reason why crude oil futures went negative in 2020.

  • @steyn1775
    @steyn1775 3 роки тому +2

    2:03 the Dutch: *Tulip Mania bubble crash in the 17th century flashbacks*

  • @vinceb8384
    @vinceb8384 3 роки тому +3

    Wonder of this concept would work nowadays with another product, hmmm time to look into ornamental gourd futures.

  • @AnonymousMC
    @AnonymousMC 4 роки тому +20

    Hey HAI, first! Stay safe out there and keep up the interesting content! Road to 2 mil!

  • @carsoncase223
    @carsoncase223 4 роки тому +13

    HAI: "I guarantee that it costs $3 now and $3 tommorow" The Fed: "we'll see about that"

  • @sarthakthememegod
    @sarthakthememegod 4 роки тому +59

    *HAI:* *Why Onions Illegal to Trade* *in Stock Markets*
    *500k People:* *Well well Let's Find* *out*

    • @bruhiq5481
      @bruhiq5481 4 роки тому +3

      Bold move commenting this before it hits 500k views

    • @harsh3624
      @harsh3624 4 роки тому

      Let's see whether this comment stands the test of time and whether this video will get 500k views. Just for the record it is 23k views now.

    • @ibrahimrukayyahshittabey
      @ibrahimrukayyahshittabey 4 роки тому

      Currently at 429k views

  • @Lyghfe
    @Lyghfe 4 роки тому +2

    1:38 holy shit, seeing this made me cry and it was not the onion. Atleast you got the sweet story to tell you grand children: "The day I lost my pinky, recording stock footage"

  • @x25__
    @x25__ 6 місяців тому +1

    OMG! When I was about 12 years old, I cooked up a scheme to make a fortune in onion futures! My dad actually went so far as to stop in a brokerage, where he was told that there was no such thing as onion futures. If he had only known why!
    I didn't think I'd ever hear anything more about onion futures, if I'd thought about it at all!

  • @space1607
    @space1607 4 роки тому +4

    These HAI videos are more random than my playlist.

  • @ehanoldaccount5893
    @ehanoldaccount5893 4 роки тому +6

    We’re just not gonna talk about the bathtub scene, bruh i’m in class

  • @Requiem100500
    @Requiem100500 4 роки тому +4

    Imagine the usual scenario: You go to a grocery store and buy some onions.
    Immediately after, somewhere, Bogdanoff takes a call: "He bought? Dump it."

  • @Fsast9707
    @Fsast9707 4 роки тому +2

    3:37 stop tears are coming out of my eyes 😥

  • @clodolcmidnights837
    @clodolcmidnights837 2 роки тому +1

    “Coked up hamburgerler”
    Adding that to the “list of things I guess I say now”

  • @FlyingMozzarella
    @FlyingMozzarella 4 роки тому +8

    2:57 and 0:44
    HAI: **shows Kosuga on screen**
    Also HAI: **writes Kasuga in captions**

    • @kornsuwin
      @kornsuwin 4 роки тому

      That's the person that made Wikipe-tan

  • @SupremeLeaderKimJong-un
    @SupremeLeaderKimJong-un 4 роки тому +10

    As you can clearly see, HAI has layers

  • @peterjansen7929
    @peterjansen7929 4 роки тому +3

    I tried that with leeks, but somehow the information got out too soon, and when I tried to flood the market with beans everybody got wind of it …

  • @jonathanoates1298
    @jonathanoates1298 3 роки тому

    "he could make the price of onions whatever he wanted: £4.20, £69"

  • @briansmith9439
    @briansmith9439 4 роки тому +2

    Interesting; perhaps a follow-up on the law by which, in 2010, it was modified to add "motion picture box office futures" to the law would be educational & informative.

  • @lanes-world
    @lanes-world 4 роки тому +5

    I like the, 'the big short' reference. One of my favourite movies of all time.

  • @ausbare140
    @ausbare140 4 роки тому +8

    The worst thing I see in this is government changing the rules half way through the game. If it can be done with onions it can be done with any other item.

    • @Winasaurus
      @Winasaurus 3 роки тому

      As is the case with just about anything remotely profitable. And just was, with the gamestop stocks fiasco. A bunch of independent traders banded together and lost 'proper traders' a lot of money, to the point the government stepped in to prevent further losses.
      They've done it with onions, they've done it with company stocks, they'll gladly do it again if it's something that threatens the stability of the market as a whole.

  • @Dillpickle592
    @Dillpickle592 4 роки тому +3

    Ngl the thumbnail looked like a pumpkin for me and I was so confused why you started talking about onions

  • @Apostate_ofmind
    @Apostate_ofmind 4 роки тому

    the use of stock videos was so calming

  • @thestarsands
    @thestarsands 3 роки тому

    We watched the Big Short only a few days ago in class and suddenly that bathtub makes a whole lot more sense

  • @spookysmoothie8034
    @spookysmoothie8034 4 роки тому +10

    getting sponsored by yourself
    STONKS
    or should i say, STINKS

  • @yeshwantradev463
    @yeshwantradev463 4 роки тому +5

    The most unique thumbnail so far😂

  • @daviddavis4885
    @daviddavis4885 4 роки тому +21

    Damn, posted 1 second ago, perfect timing
    I’ve never been this early before

  • @spencerbreu6270
    @spencerbreu6270 4 роки тому +1

    Akinsoft needs to hear about this one.

  • @psychlops924
    @psychlops924 3 роки тому +1

    Not gonna lie, I was not expecting that bath scene. There was a lot more skin than I’m used to in an HAI video

  • @TheGamingAlong
    @TheGamingAlong 4 роки тому +4

    Thomas Frank and The Big Short reference in one video? My life is complete now.

  • @andrespardo124
    @andrespardo124 3 роки тому +3

    😳😳 seeing this after Robbin Hood ban GameStop

  • @nominator7902
    @nominator7902 4 роки тому +15

    The time I was this early, HAI was talking about their first mistakes...

    • @DragonKingGaav
      @DragonKingGaav 4 роки тому +1

      check out the new channel, a hill to die on if you like half as interesting!

    • @MaximNightFury
      @MaximNightFury 4 роки тому +2

      Next mistakes video will talk about the time Sam accidentally swapped the two videos that were going to be uploaded between channels

    • @gunjanshah13
      @gunjanshah13 4 роки тому

      Fun Fact :
      Neptune orbits the Sun once every 165 years. Hence, it has orbited the Sun only once since it was discovered.
      ― Edu ASTRONOMY

  • @daramolapraise
    @daramolapraise 4 роки тому +2

    Me: (getting ready for work)
    UA-cam: “why trading onions on the financial market is illegal”
    Me: “work can wait”

  • @binojgeorge8079
    @binojgeorge8079 4 роки тому

    Thumbnail:- 'Stinks' with an arrow pointing towards Half as Interesting logo
    Me:- Visible confusion

  • @CasterAzucar
    @CasterAzucar 4 роки тому +38

    But of course, shia labeouf would get them for free after digging many, many holes.

    • @thesage1096
      @thesage1096 4 роки тому +2

      what do u mean he dug many holes ?

    • @CasterAzucar
      @CasterAzucar 4 роки тому +4

      @@thesage1096 Read the book/watch the movie "Holes". it's too long to explain here 😁

  • @mitchscott
    @mitchscott 4 роки тому +3

    The jokes are off the charts these days, god damn

  • @agdtkry
    @agdtkry 4 роки тому +7

    I'd invest into Gunions. Sounds like a multi-billion idea

  • @yestermorrow3223
    @yestermorrow3223 3 роки тому +2

    Thumbnail:
    A big arrow pointing that says "stinks" at hai’s logo

  • @jonathanbowers8964
    @jonathanbowers8964 4 роки тому +1

    So basically the Stalk Market from Animal Crossing was real.

  • @nycki93
    @nycki93 3 роки тому +3

    This channel has a remarkable ability to make a detailed and interesting story sound like vapid bullshit :(

  • @Ivytheherbert
    @Ivytheherbert 4 роки тому +5

    Ah yes, when the system fails dramatically yet again, the USA continues to add more layers of polish to the turd.

  • @Mr.HowardEatsPants
    @Mr.HowardEatsPants 4 роки тому +16

    Me, when I found out I can't buy onion futures: **cries** "Hey who left this bowl of onions here?"

  • @cliche_5860
    @cliche_5860 3 роки тому

    One Giant Onion: my disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined

  • @oregonadam6367
    @oregonadam6367 4 роки тому +1

    Literally the perfect “Big Short” Easter egg at 3:44

  • @TheyCallMePhinq
    @TheyCallMePhinq 4 роки тому +7

    Onions? Everyone knows the real money is in Turnips...

  • @SomeNot
    @SomeNot 4 роки тому +6

    I didnt mean to click this notification but I’m glad i did.

  • @lcgdabmaster6797
    @lcgdabmaster6797 4 роки тому +4

    Oh, ummm... guess I’m gonna hide my onions from the cops I guess (Some of the onions are counterfeit).

  • @azuraligthfeilt
    @azuraligthfeilt 4 роки тому +2

    I feel like HAI is more of a meme channel and an educational one

  • @joeydegamestreamer4644
    @joeydegamestreamer4644 2 роки тому

    this is verry intresting and i love the little jokes and how they try to explain as good as they can while being verry simplistic