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    Eurex Volumes Collapse

    Maybe less volume is a sign of increased market efficiency. Before the market was less efficient, so it took longer and more trades to get to the "correct" price.
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    NY's Tower of Lemon Socialism to cost 3.8B

    This building has a huge symbolic value. It symbolizes that America we not be broken by Islamic terrorism. Unfortunately, America is in economic decline, but I still support this building as a big F you to terrorists.
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    Marriage, just don't

    Great advice.
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    Marriage, just don't

    I agree, great quote.
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    Marriage, just don't

    How sad about the murder. A lot of my friends have healthy marriages. From my failures know what to look for in a girl now. I learned a lot about myself from my failed relationships. There are things I can work on now. You have to take your failures as a learning experience. I haven't...
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    Marriage, just don't

    I dated a girl for three years and two months after we broke up, she was pregnant with another guys kid who was only separated from his wife for two months. She wanted me to marry her, but there was something missing in our relationship and I was too emotionally involved to realize that she had...
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    Build Your Own - Step by Step ( i7 2600k)

    Yes, a lot of programs aren't mult-threaded, but don't be too disheartened, intel has turbo boost technology which boost the speed of the single core if the other cores aren't being used. http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-technology/turbo-boost/turbo-boost-technology.html
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    why does price tend to fall faster than it rises?

    The Leverage effect has been widely cited in academia for the relationship between price and volatility. But according to a paper from MIT researchers, the leverage effect doesn't matter. http://jasminah.com/Papers/Leverage2.pdf "One of the most enduring empirical regularities in...
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    why does price tend to fall faster than it rises?

    So you are saying that normal returns aren't larger in the downward direction? I would argue that they are.
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    why does price tend to fall faster than it rises?

    Then what is the correct answer? It is not an obvious answer to me.
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    200,000 Americans killed each year by Prescription medicines/drugs

    How many lives does prescription medication save each year?
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    GOLD AT 5,000??? Bubble or super depression.

    I'd buy property or stocks instead of gold. The likelihood that Gold becomes a reserve currency is pretty remote, and gold seems overvalued relative to everything else.
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    Gold and aggregate demand.

    There is an opportunity cost of holding gold while you could hold another asset such as treasury bonds. When real interest rates rise, gold will probably go down because the opportunity cost will be higher.
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    Gold and aggregate demand.

    If we start having the CPI increasing wildly like the gold bulls predict, the fed will raise rates, thereby decreasing the price of Gold. The Gold bubble got crushed in the early 80's when the fed raised rates.
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    Gold and aggregate demand.

    No , what Buffet is saying is that Gold is way overvalued in relation to other physical assets such as land and the stock market. Why aren't gold bugs buying land? "because it is different this time..." "real estate prices have never gone down." It is a classic bubble.
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