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I used to work in science, the best scientists in the US usually have companies and they are very motivated by money. I still can't believe that people are taken in by the useless platitudes, style, and imagery. A recent poll showed more people think Obama is on the right track...

It can't be done anyway, Gingrich and company tried it in the 90's and they were excoriated for it. Touch Medicare and SSI for instance and you die politically. The population knows about the problem but will not take any cuts in benefits. Republicans then will spend simply to stay in office...

I have never seen image work so well as in this president. He literally does nothing and people are fawning. North Korea launches missile- 'hey let's have a meeting and discuss this serious issue' says Obama. [ooooo he's so cool and competant, look at how smartly he handles things]...

3 months makes one consistent?

stocky my man, I just have one question and I would appreciate an honest answer: between you and Cramer, who is the bitch and who is the bull?

yes, this takes paper trading to whole new level.

Why is it so hard for some folks to grasp the simple concept behind the administrations position on executive compensation: Those who fail at their jobs should not be exceptionally well compensated? Because we don't want government telling the private sector what they should be paid, that...

ET's unseemly underbelly of fake spreadsheets and psychotic blown out traders. So this guy was inconsistent for 8 years, and then because he claims 6 winning days in a row on some spreadsheet suddenly we are witnessing a millionaire in the making. I say let anyone who falls for this crap...

I don't get it, you mean he could not even make up his own spreadsheet?

Execution errors, both my own fault or externally related, have hurt me more than once and are psychologically damaging for me personally. Losses due to being wrong are actually not as bad since I know that's part of the game. I agree that it matters a lot as to why the drawdown occurs.

they way things are going it will have to be 'thank god for ET so many of you can pretend you have jobs'

Trading systems are built by people and a set of rules created by people is completely arbitrary, that is- they are discretionary. Applying the exact same set of rules over and over again is called consistency, but the rules themselves are discretionary. It is by no means the holy grail to...

I am for a solution, I could argue tax rates all day and it doesn't mean much anymore. There are stronger fundamantals at play here which make it moot. The banks will not be fixed, globalism will continue to wreck american living standards, and debt will pile up. It isn't 1986. Supply side...

Economists have a fancy term for the fall in incomes of the US working class due to trade with China: wage compression. It means that US and Chinese wages will converge and that means that US wages must fall. These sons of bitches think that this is good, after all they claim quite seriously, we...

yes, and this entire discussion is way oversimplified. You can't take one nation in a world economy and apply some economic theory. There is not any gold standard economic theory anyway, despite Thunderdog's insistence that something like that exists. There are only principles and concepts that...

Just because a 17 year old can read Dr. Suess does not mean a good education, and if it is such a smashing success then tell me why is there so much holler from the left for more spending on education? Why was there even a no child left behind act if it was so good? Everyone with a critical...

It's not about rich person consumption, it's about rich person investment. Poor people are not going to invest in capital, only someone with lots of cash looking to make more cash does that. The proof is easy, compare economies where capital investment is directed by government versus investment...

bullshit!! and that's not free market supply side http://money.cnn.com/2008/12/17/news/economy/car_czar.fortune/index.htm

Supply side is a set of principles mostly, some of which I agree with. Within the human race Paretto's (sp?) principle says that about 10% of the people are really the creative driving force behind material progress, the rest are just followers and infrastructure. The more I live, the more I...

I doubt the laffer curve would even apply in a command and control economy, the Soviet Union is a bad example.