A love letter for the NYMEX

Monday, June 1, 2009 | 11:39 a.m. CDT; updated 4:30 p.m. CDT, Wednesday, June 3, 2009

You can’t always predict when love will strike. Certainly I didn’t suspect I would become smitten, with an economic institution of all things, on last Friday, but it happened just the same. Fondness for a dapper diplomat or a debonair astronaut I could have anticipated, but it is the unlikely New York Mercantile Exchange that has besotted me, and I’ll tell you why.

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