In exchange for the stock the grantor takes back a promissory note, again bearing a government-specified rate of interest (currently less than 1% for a nine-year note) that locks the value of the stock in at the time of the transfer.
Getting a good bearing is important because unless the insect rolls a direct course, it risks turning back towards the dung pile where another beetle will almost certainly try to steal its prized ball.
Hydraulic fracturing pumps many thousands of gallons of mainly water and sand, with a few chemicals, at high pressure into tight gas-bearing shale deposits (hardened muds), creating cracks that allow gas to flow back up the well to the surface ( Shale Shock).