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Message:: [QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 1250209, member: 27832"]And the original buyer didn't? Let me recap your "example": Farmer A and Farmer B each have a field full of corn. Consumer C has $1000, the only money in existence. Consumer C pays Farmer A $1000 for all his corn. Now, Consumer C has a field's worth of corn, and, according to what you said in your post, Farmer B's field is worthless -- its "value drops to zero", because "the buyer" has no more money. But Farmer A does. In fact, now he's got $1000, but no corn, and he's getting kind of hungry. So he goes to Farmer B and asks for some of his corn. ("Fatima told me it was free!") Farmer B learns from Farmer A's mistake, and says, "Free? Yeah, right. I'll be happy to sell you some of my corn. You can buy half of it for $1000." Farmer A, over a barrel, agrees. Now, I'm sure you can contrive some Twister-like position in which Farmer B's corn is still worth the "zero" you claimed, but to me, it sure looks like demand has driven its price up to $2000 per field. Funny thing about money -- it can be used more than once. Your example seems to deny that.[/QUOTE]