Is There a Difference Between a Physical and a Financial Asset?

Is there a difference when you're talking about a physical, a commodity like nicholl or safus oil or some something that's important to the functioning of the global economy? You know, does it kind of make sense for the almani to do that? I mean, i know everyone's mad at thumb, and they're tey'll never going to live this down. It really is one of the craziest stories of of a the decade, i think.