The club also announced that it had signed a new eight-year sponsorship deal for its training kit, having bought out the last two years of DHL's existing contract in the expectation of striking a better deal.

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One of the itemized accounts of what's been bought comes from an obscure form titled Acquisition Analysis Report for Contract Actions(ph).

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Medicare is a government-run program, and services are bought on a contract basis by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the American Association of Retired Persons.

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"The fact that someone bought a futures contract (which means that someone else sold one) doesn't reduce the amount of oil available to consume, " Krugman wrote.

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