Market Farming

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The corporate PR spin on the corporate scandals is that it's all the fault
of a few bad eggs. And as expected, that's exactly what we see here from
the same individual.  

NO. It's the structure of the system, lack of regulation, control of
regulators and lawmakers by the same interests that benefit from the scam.

paul & barb - on the continental divide
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On 10/17/2002 at 7:42 PM Rick Williams wrote:

>The failures are due primarily to changes in the market and the decisions
>of
>the management. In most large coops there is a lot of "things" going on
>that
>are unethical. Such things as paying board members more for their products
>to lots of perks for the board members helped along by the management. In
>fact, the managment controls too much of the real decision making. This is
>because of the distance from the owners. It gets too big and beyong the
>mangement ability of the typical owner (patron). It is just a fact of life
>with size and human nature.
>