In a similar vein
my old company used to be part of a group of companies who were required each day to hold a conference call to set a running benchmark on one of the London commodity futures markets.

Each day, on a rota system, five of the companies would set this price. When our chief trader was busy, he'd tell me to take the call.

I knew fuck all about it, so I just used to hmm and ahh, and say 'Yes, I agree' now and then. Occasionally we were 'chairman' of this panel, so I'd have to say a bit more, but even then I had no clue.

Hope nobody ever went bust becuase of my incompetence. lol.
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