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Every Day Is a Grift


Ag trader Greg Pappas leads off talking Russia, grain markets and more. John Flannigan calls in to talk MLB, local tax policy, and the baby formula shortage. Karl Denninger of Market Ticker closes the show talking labor numbers, anti-trust, and much more.

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GREG PAPPAS

Greg Pappas started trading in 2010 and started working at Ceres in 2014. He is currently a broker at Oppenheimer. He clerked for coach Doug Redmann and Adam Rich in the grain room where he learned about grain swaps, automation and market making. As traditional Greeks, His family has always been in the restaurant business. His interests lie in western philosophy and the art of war. He is a resident of the Chicago land area.

JOHN FLANNIGAN

John Flannigan is a graduate from Notre Dame University and a retired English Professor from Prairie State College out of Chicago Heights, IL.

KARL DENNINGER

Karl Denninger is an American technology businessman, finance blogger, and political activist, sometimes referred to as a founding member of the Tea Party movement.

Denninger was the founder and CEO of MCSNet in Chicago. Opened as Macro Computer Solutions, Incorporated in 1987, it expanded its service offerings in 1993 to become one of the area’s first commercial internet service providers. Among its customers was the Chicago Public Library, which relied on MCSNet for both internet access and web hosting. In 1997 he led a coalition of ISPs in setting up the Enhanced Domain Name System, a short-lived alternative DNS root which allowed registrants to add their own generic top-level domains. Denninger continued to run MCSNet until August 1998, when he sold it to Winstar Communications for an undisclosed amount. For his efforts, the Chicago Sun-Times dubbed him one of “the movers and shakers who brought Chicago into the Internet Age”. After the sale of MCSNet, he moved to Florida, where he began to devote more time to stock trading and political activism.