Big Bill wrote: On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:44:59 -0700, The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> wrote: I like Cuil.com I think it's Cool. I can do things in Cuil that I cannot do in Google. Also, Cuil doesn't kick you out when you do automated searches. You try automated searches in Google or Yahoo, and you're eventually presented with
"Frank Provasek" <frank@frankcoins.com> wrote in message news:c2578bfe-9d09-46a3-919d-3005ce703f9e@k13g2000hse.googlegroups.com... A market maker is a dealer that holds enough inventory in a specific item that they can generally fill both buy and sell orders immediately on their own accounts. But can they also set or control prices like DeBeers (once?) did? In reality, not just in
"Mr. Jaggers" <lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com> wrote: The first name that popped into my mind when I read that was J. Kline, the specialist in Standing Liberty Quarters. But somehow I can't picture him cornering markets or manipulating prices, and that's what I picture "market makers" doing. While I won't deny that a market market makers have been known to try to corner markers or
I have occasionally seen the term, "Market Maker," used regarding specific coins. As I vaguely understand it, this means one person who has "cornered the market" on a particular item. And thus, can influence prices on the open market in general for that particular item. Something like, "I have X-Number-Percentage of the total known mintage of the 1942 Elbonia Independence Commemorative
