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When there are no buyers of US govt debt except the Fed watch what will happen to interest rates then...

My thought is that Bernanke is doing exactly the right thing at this time. With the US wallowing (like a pig) in debt, Bernanke's QE2 is causing some of that debt to be paid back with thin-air printed money. At the same time, it has buoyed the US stock market, and the emerging nation stock...

Martinghoul, I have a question -- It was my understanding that the Fed initially DID collect interest on the national debt for the benefit of the Fed's owners (Rothschild's, etc.) until a law change in 1947 caused almost all of the interest on the debt to go back to Treasury. Correct or no?

It's a typical political thing, broached on FOX, of course, and this time I don't think they're gonna stop a damn thing with the rhetoric -- those GS cheats have been exposed and there's enough blood in the water to keep the investigations going.

That article was idiotic. Yes, Dodd's corrupt. Yes, government in general is corrupt. But to extrapolate that into "the Democrats have controlled everything since 2006 and they're the most corrupt government ever" -- well, that's totally and completely ludicrous. And it also diverts...

Don't you guys get it -- the status quo, which is what the Republicans want, is so bad that people are dying because of it. With no health insurance, the miserable healthcare bastards charge you more, so paying cash for health care is not an option. And before someone starts flaming me back...

I don't know about Martin Armstrong, but his timing cycles saved me some money a few years ago -- I lightened up on equities in the retirement portfolio late one February because of the cycle prediction, and sure enough, even though there had been no general upheaval going on, the Chinese...

Excellent material -- thanks! I really liked the summary: In short, traders should be mindful of the potential for massive buying sprees as the $114.1 Billion is returned to primary dealers over the next six weeks (along with continued Agency POMO and MBS purchases) and also of the potential...

Yes, you can fire yourself if you're incorporated Sub 'S' style and you'd be able to collect unemployment -- then the state would raise the unemployment tax rate for your company from almost nil to something ugly for a long time.

How many facts do you need, total_keops? Goldman is an owner of the Federal Reserve, their high-freq trading is indeed front-running, AIG bailout money funneled straight through to Goldman as credit default swap payments, and another post in Wall St. News, "The real scoop on GS from a former...

Thanks kxvid! Even after slowing down to 4-hr bars, I knew I had been trying to trade NOISE but I didn't know why.

Suri Dudella's Trade Chart Patterns Like the Pros has just what the title says, many potentially profitable chart patterns to use as an idea source.

STFU and go broke like an adult.

She did do quite well turning the BofA CEO into a stammering idiot when she questioned him as to why he overpaid for Merrill. But I gotta agree she's a tool...

Also in support of the choice of NQ over ES for newbs is an on-target quote from Pa(b)st Prime: "Yet most small traders pick the most tick f*cked market on earth to trade, the E-Mini S&P." NQ for me.