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Then I'd recommend not prefacing your sentences with "It started off as a highly confrontational and discriminatory religion"! By the way, take a gander at this chart of the number of murders per 100,000 people (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate) Funny...

Without banks you and I wouldn't be having this conversation about banks on the internet, we'd both be sitting in unheated/air conditioned mud huts slapping at fleas and worrying about the bubonic plague, like people did back before we had silly things like banks and financial systems.

I know, I'm waiting to see them start the penis size comparisons, although they kinda already did with the whole "we've got the biggest military" thing.

A little world history is in order if one believes Muslims have any kind of monopoly on the killing and maiming others religions. They called the last time Christianity ruled the world the Dark Ages for a reason!

18 If someone has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and will not listen to them when they discipline him, 19 his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his town. 20 They shall say to the elders, “This son of ours is...

So first off, I'm an American without business in the U.K., so I'm as close to an unbiased observer in this as there is. That said, the logic you're using here is a bit suspect, again to someone who doesn't have a dog in the fight and is just looking objectively at your logic. If I asked you for...

Add in that everything originating in the U.K. from aerospace parts and pharmaceuticals to certification of airport security become uncertified the day of Brexit absent raft of international agreements, which can't happen in time now, or an agreement to keep them under their current EU...

What exactly do you mean by that point? That the UK will take military action against the EU? That they'll threaten to? Or the EU should be worried because of that? Does anyone, most especially the UK, benefit from the use or threatened use, or "reminder" about "the biggest military power in...

I guess religion threads are timeless....

I don't think predicting the price of a currency pair nearly a month from now that is subject to almost unprecedented outside uncertainty, which is what I was responding to, could be termed a momentum play. I'd also argue that trading a currency pair that is currently subject to almost hourly...

The "right" inflation rate is something that smart, well meaning people can discuss forever and I'm not sure there is a knowable answer in the 1-5% range. There is pretty good evidence that deflation is very harmful to any economy because of the significant disincentive to invest in anything...

Really? So if I do an OTC deal with a dealer, my name (or my firm's) is publicly reported? What report is that?

What the heck kind of OTC dealer discloses their counterparties to anyone?

Not sure what you mean by that? CBOE disappeared? And in the contemporaneous article Madoff claims they were all OCT, which is of course the simple course of action one would take to avoid detection by matching to cleared trades.

Actually per the MAR Hedge article helpfully provided by @Kevin Schmit he claimed all his option trades were OTC. Again your hindsite is 20/20 here which means you're focusing on the amount of work the government would have had to do in order to catch this one criminal knowing he was a...

Where is it that you live, so we can provide data (country). Funny that you mention data, because the human brain has a funny way of selective memory when it comes to "I remember when you could buy a candy bar for a nickel" kind of stuff and really can't be trusted at all. So if you look at the...

Papers you can almost always get ahold of, if nothing else emailing the author will usually get you the paper and potentially some interesting side comments as well. Articles are a little harder, especially the ones in obscure journals like IEEE Transactions on Advanced Packaging or something...

We're saying the same thing then, I agree.

You can also often get access to articles through an alumni membership to your university. I'm able to get Ebsco, AMI/Inform, and OneSource, among others, which gets you almost any article or paper.

For about 10 years my wife and I had an average total salary of about $100,000 and a mortgage of $500,000. We lived very comfortably and were never close to be "awash" in debt, even though the ratio of our earnings to debt was 1:5 vice the 1:3 ratio you cite. Obviously micro vs macro, but the...