Recent content by monistat7

We are too busy blaming Mexicans for sneaking into the country and stealing our toilet cleaning and fruit picking jobs. We should be focusing our energy on developing more skilled jobs rather than trying to protect unskilled labor.

I was trading FT from 04-07. Sounds like I made a mistake by going back to grad school and missing out on 07-08. =( I have no doubt that if I traded from 98-00, that I would be a millionaire now.

Forget 07-08. How did these guys do in 00-01 when it was still free money. And if these guys got in during 99-00, they should have a good nest egg saved up.

there might be a few good FA's out there but generally the private wealth business is about increasing the assets under management and not beating the market. they take a cut of assets under management and the gains as well. the easiest way for them to make money for themselves is to maximize...

I skipped pages 2-8 in this thread but Ann Coulter is nuts. As a current Cornell student, her whole rant that only the Arts and Science school is the only Ivy school at Cornell is a load of BS. I have never heard that statement and neither has anyone else here. It is also sad that she is...

ashraf talks a good game. i dont follow FX so i dont know if his analysis is accurate or not. all i know is that he interviewed me to be a junior analyst like 7 yrs ago right after i graduated college. that FX trading shop he works at or used to work at looked like crap. it was full of dirty...

the FDIC was at risk of going bust at the end of 2008 so this isnt anything new. the FDIC going bust isn't as bad as it sounds because the fed can just pump more money into it as others have mentioned.

this isn't the first company that george the CEO ran into the ground. just look at how the company is structured with only a handful of employees. if that doesn't raise red flags, i don't know what will.

they arent paying $3300 a month each. they are splitting it and are only paying like $1650 each per month, which isnt that bad to have your own bedroom and bathroom in manhattan. the median family in NYC might only make $50K per year but that includes the other boroughs outside manhattan. i'm...

maybe ron paul knows the difference between RIOTING and PROTESTING. no one here sympathized with the rioters in the LA riots. i don't know why everyone is protesting for the Tibetan rioters. i find it funny that all these protesters are fighting for the rights of a group of people they...

i expect a bidding war to start. i am long from $14 and was expecting ttwo to be bought out in 2008. the industry is consolidating and ttwo is one of the few players out there with a solid stable of titles (namely GTA). i expect ERTS to raise their bid and ATVI, or maybe even MSFT to...

man i hate to wish for destruction but i really need a hurricane before next month so that i can unload this sucker.

not if we are hoping that it hits the drought stricken regions of the country.

yes august/september is the peak season but if we havent had jack squat so far, that is not going to help the cause. where is global warming when you need it?

i live 1 block away from the WTC site and i havent heard anything about this. i figure it would have made the local papers at least. im not saying it didnt happen, just that i havent heard anything about it.