Re: Anonymous stock trades.

[Asgaard <asgaard@sos.sll.se>]

On Fri, 7 Jun 1996, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

> Of course, what Dr. Phill Hallam-Baker, PhD, suggests is idiotic. As
> any free market economist would tell you, the way to stop a resource
> from being destroyed is not to pray that people won't buy it but to
> assure that someone has an ownership stake in the resource, thus
> assuring that their investment would be destroyed if the resource
> vanished.

Who is going to assure that someone has an ownership stake in the
Humpback Whales? The World Government? Is that entity supposed to
give the whales to some private whale-watcher's tourism enterprise?
I don't get it.

Who cares about a bunch of Norwegian (or Japaneese) fishermen?

Asgaard