This question <1002|1004> overall <1002|1004> Nazgul: <951|1166>. (graded A weight 50%)  
  Question 401: If someone first buys a car, and after two years trades it in for a new car, is that C-M-C or M-C-M? If someone first buys a house, then after ten years decides to move and sells his house for a profit, is this C-M-C or M-C-M? If a farmer raises wheat, then at the end of the year sells his crop and with the proceeds buys the materials to raise next year's wheat, is that C-M-C or M-C-M?   
  [1003] Nazgul: CMC Confusion.   I view question 401 differently than Ace's [999] and Tink's [1000]. Additional clarification from anyone would be appreciated.   
  Regarding the housing situation, if someone buys a house they are purchasing a commodity, M-C, by selling it for a profit they are essentially exchanging their commodity for money C-M. Here, M-C-M, the buyer of the house “lays out money in order that, as a seller, he may recover money.”   
  If the original buyer of the house is doing so with the intention of it being an investment that he will later profit from, then wouldn't it be M-C-M, not C-M-C as Ace and Tink stated?   
 
 
 
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