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Cuba's tried most of the holistic treatments for cancer and they report poor to mediocre results. One of my cousins was diagnosed with cancer a couple of years ago and was able to get research results from Cuba that showed the Cubans were no longer using most of the holistic techniques. A...

I don't undertand why you think it's a slave system. Millions of people buy homes, make the payments and eventually own their homes. Fifteen years ago our neighbors bought their house with a 15-year mortgage. They made all the payments and last month they had a "burn-the-mortgage barbeque"...

Five years before those hearings, in September of 1999, an article in the New York Times predicted with amazing accuracy the financial collapse that would begin eight years later. --------------------------------------------- NEW YORK TIMES Fannie Mae Eases Credit To Aid Mortgage Lending...

Tinkering with the current tax code is a waste of time. We need to completely revamp our tax system and make it simple and understandable. Unfortunately, the politicians like a complex tax code because they use it to hand out favors to their pals (buying votes) or attempt social engineering...

That may be true, but if you live in a high-tax state your total taxes are as high as the average of many high-tax countries.

Comparing Federal Tax rates to other countries is misleading. In California we pay 9+% state income taxes, plus the highest sales and gasoline taxes in the country. Our property taxes are high relative to income because property values are high. We also pay the highest electrical/utility taxes...

Our economic train wreck was created in the 1990s by BOTH polictical parties who supported two of the dumbest moves in the entire history of economics. First, they repealed the Glass-Steagall Act that had, for over 60 years, put a fire-wall between banks and high-risk investment activities (80+%...

Addressing the tax issue without fixing the spending problem will not work. For political reasons they have to resolved at the same time. If one side gets what they want first, they will then dig in, doing nothing to solve the other problem (and then have the nerve to call it a "victory")...

Those numbers are very different than the CBO report. I trust the CBO over a political organization because the argument you're making is an extremely narrow slice of the pie that assumes that the funds would have been applied against the debt. If we use history as a guide, that's a faulty...

The Bush tax cuts really haven't changed much of anything. One of the CBO reports issued in 2010 (I think it was August) showed that the tax cuts for the wealthiest 2% accounted for 15% of the debt accumulated over the previous ten years. About 20% of the debt resulted from wars in Iraq and...

Maybe this will clarify... Article: “The Downside of Diversity -- A Harvard political scientist finds that diversity hurts civic life. What happens when a liberal scholar unearths an inconvenient truth?” The study, the largest ever on civic engagement in America, found that...

Article: “The Downside of Diversity A Harvard political scientist finds that diversity hurts civic life. What happens when a liberal scholar unearths an inconvenient truth?” The study, the largest ever on civic engagement in America, found that virtually all measures of civic health are...

Actually, most of it was built by the lowest bidder.

Article: "The Downside of Diversity: A Harvard political scientist finds that diversity hurts civic life. What happens when a liberal scholar unearths an inconvenient truth?" The study, the largest ever on civic engagement in America, found that virtually all measures of civic health are...

I'm not a lawyer and I'm definitely not your lawyer but... if they turned you down soley based upon your age then you probably have a good lawsuit. The way I see it, you can either find a lawyer of find another broker. The latter is probably a lot cheaper and easier.

I doubt that it will happen. The Repubs were driven out by members of their own party. I doubt the Dems will do the same. Most them will be high-fiving Weiner in the cloak room.

Michael, I remember your original post from the other day (6 months of profitably paper trading your system) and here are my suggestions for you. 1. LONG TERM: Learn programming skills. At the very least, learn how to back-test and forward-test. In my opinion, these are basic required...

When I was in college one of my math professors used to call the lottery a "stupidity tax... The dumber you are the more you pay."

Over the last 5 years, at least a quarter of the people I know have been fired, furloughed, layed off, demoted, shifted to part-time, lost all or part of their pension, had their house foreclosed on, got harrased by bill collectors, etc. The one thing they all had in common is that they worked...

Stop loss orders are NOT a guarantee. A stop loss is an order to buy or sell like any other order. In a liquid market, stop loss orders can work quite reliably (you get filled at or near your stop price). The less liquid the market, the less reliable the stop order. In other words, if a market...