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From the serious tone your questions, I'm not sure if you realize I was kidding and you're just playing along... or if you think I was serious. To clear things up, I was just kidding. I was giving an example of the bizarre thinking of conspiracy theorists. They connect coincident events by...

It's not "news." It's a reality show... Survivor... American Idol... Royal Wedding. They're all the same.

Just look at the facts: 1. At the same time that Obama's birth certificate is released, the head of the CIA gets a huge promotion. 2. At the same time, Fatah and Hamas agree to a truce. 3. And on that very same day, it was my grandfather's 90th birthday. The reason that's important is...

One of my neighbors works for a medium-sized manufacturer in California that was considering opening a facility in Texas. Yesterday they put those plans on hold. Opening the second plant in another country is now being considered. I don't know how this will turn out, but there's no question that...

Some people are obsessed with conspiracies. Once they become believers, there are no facts that will change their minds because all they're interested in are "facts" that confirm their conspiracy theories. They will die with their beliefs and nobody will ever change their minds. Forget about...

Yes. We lived overseas a lot when I was a kid (my father was an architectural engineer for a large construction company). My youngest sister was born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. When she was born she received a "record of birth abroad" from the local US embassy and a letter and passport form the...

If the person legally owns the gun, that means he's passed an FBI background check and does not have a criminal record. Why would that bother me at a coffee shop or anywhere else? I have a permit to carry a concealed weapon, as do 6 million other people in this country. We're law abiding...

When Bush was president, half the cars in our neighborhood had "Dissent is Patriotic" bumper stickers. Within a week of the time Obama took office, the bumper stickers disappeared from every car. I can only surmise that dissent is not patriotic when a Democrat is in the White House.

I agree, with one exception -- when calling someone stupid, the individual making the accusation should expect to be held to a higher standard.

Now that you mention it, there are five errors: 1. "They" should be capitalized as the first word in a sentence. 2. "Aren't" is a contraction and requires an apostrophe. 3. "Texas," as the name of a state, should be capitalized. 4. "Governor," as the first word in a sentence, should be...

If you replaced "Income Inequality" with "Racial/Ethnic Diversity" on your chart you'd end up with similar results. There's a very high correlation among the countries on the chart. I wonder what the chart(s) would look like if African and South American countries were also included.

Income is just one of many factors that impacts criminal behavior. Look at studies that control for income and income inequality (such as the many published by Professor Robert Putnam) and you'll begin to understand the enormous complexity of social problems in general and crime in particular...

These charts are more likely the result of racial diversity than income inequality. Harvard Professor Robert Putnam's study showed that the more racially diverse a society is, the lower the levels of trust...

No government regulation is required beyond current fraud laws. First, I can't imagine "selling" my trading system to anyone. It took thousands of hours to develop. Why would I want to waste time with students? But let's say there actually is a trader who's willing to share his/her method...

I agree. Not our problem. Not a single US resource should be used.

"Money is made in the backtesting." Words of wisdom. When I first started trading, I wasted two years until I figured that out.

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The banks may not be making a big issue of it because they don't see the FTT as an immediate threat. A friend of mine is a securities lawyer in New York. When I asked him why GS and the other big New York banks kept their mouths shut at the height of the FTT debate, he said that there was no...

The exchanges would leave in a heartbeat. It seems the Financial Transaction Tax (FTT) proponents haven't figured out what Sweden learned the hard way back in the 1980's. The FTT results in a net revenue decrease to the state's treasury.