We're Victims Too!

[Viscount Rost was right. We were merely a mine, responsible only for mining. The price of steel was not up to us, and our rate of extraction had always been fixed.

Whether prices rose or fell, theoretically, it was none of our concern. We only needed to complete our tasks on time.

However, we had also noticed that many people did not seem to want so much steel. If everything was produced, it might affect the market.

Once goods flooded the market, the ones truly hurt would only be producers like us. Prices simply could not hold, and if market demand declined and what we produced could not be sold, that would also be a huge problem.

Without work, should we dismiss the miners, or keep them on...

After discussion at our shareholders' meeting, we were willing to repurchase Steel Futures at the prices from before the Futures Market appeared. Those willing may negotiate with us and make a clean break.

Note!!!!! Today only!!!!!]

Foster Iron Mine's announcement was extremely long, rambling on for more than ten thousand words. The entire thing said that they were merely miners: whatever price you wanted to pay, that was the price they would sell for.

Now that there was a problem, no one could blame them.

The orders placed earlier still had to be fulfilled.

But after fulfilling those orders, they too would be victims.

So what?

To resolve the current trouble, they were willing to pay a certain price.

That price was their willingness to buy back these futures at the original price and simply stop producing altogether. This was also in line with the Futures Market's rules; they could deliver the futures contracts to themselves.

But the moment this announcement appeared, everyone exploded!

What kind of joke was this?

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