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A transaction tax in theory is a good idea. -kills HFT -makes trading cheaper. However it has disadvantages - makes trading more expensive -taxes have tendency to be used to balance budget, ever upward creep. - possibility of extreme lobbying for exemptions, which defeats the advantages...

The government is controlled by the corporations and the bankers. So those were your real adversaries.

Averaging down is the right way to trade. It only doesnt work when your trading plan didnt work in the first place.

OP is still easily fooled by the fake two-party system. He's probably part of these people.

This is a good example of big corporation creating bureaucracy for small business, with the government, which they control, as intermediary. This is true capitalism.

Myth. The government isn't anti-business. In fact, the government is run by corporations. The regulations are on purpose, to decrease competition by small businesses to larger multi-national corporations.

That's probably true. Politicians seem to be perpetuating the myth of inflating away debt though. If that's what we doing, why did the Debt to GDP ratio grow from 150 to 300+% in 30 years? Looks like Debt is just becoming bigger and bigger a problem. How far can it grow? 5 to 1? 10 to 1? It will...

This worked, 30 years ago. Since then, inflation due to a debt ponzi has eroded buying power of the poorest 20% by 1% per year. (30% buying power lost)

How does free market view products made with child labor in a country where child labor is legal, imported into a country where child labor is illegal? Unfair competition? Or the opposite?

Due to outsourcing maybe the distribution went to divide the middle class over more countries, leading to a smaller middle class in USA, bigger middle class in China etc, and smaller poorer class in China, and bigger poorer class in USA.

2 issues: High standard of living for all is an untested economic theory. You may need the poor class, to have a middle class, like how the Romans needed slaves, to create emperors. The real balance may be a lower standard living for all, and Americans have been living on a higher standard...

LOL funniest I have heard Are people in America dumb?

Free healthcare for everybody below age 75. No more healthcare after 75. Solves all budget problems.:D

when I realized discretionary trading didn't work. it was like AHA. since most daytraders do discretionary, most daytraders lose.

I hope we close up big today so I can short some more! I need to average down my short!

4+, but less than 5.

No. Myth. Market cap is paper money. Dividend is real money.

I don't think wil hit 1280 anytime soon, maybe in march, but not sooner. The rally is strong.

You're wrong. The government is now run by corporations. This is true capitalism, a true power grab. It's the corporations creating laws to benefit themselves, as to make more profit, that is what capitalism is all about. About creating advantages for your own company, with a single goal in...

I was so right.