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The key is you last sentence, risk. It's not clear that the risk adjusted return of this investment type is any higher than the risk adjusted return of putting your money in a CD in a bank. People who talk in terms of absolute ROI rather than risk adjusted return are probably both unaware of the...

Kind of a gratuitous comment, isn't it?

While generally agreeing, I would also suggest that the 10% of "trade what you see" that isn't pure apophenia is really behavioral economics. Assuming that the behavioral economics factors behind Treasury trading are identical to that behind crude futures or hog bellies is a rather rash...

Actually fund companies aren't expected in most cases to provide oversight. In almost every prospectus the fund company explicitly states this. The main exception to this would be activist funds where that is there investment thesis, otherwise almost universally funds have a policy in place and...

If it causes fewer people who feel the need to redefine a fundamental aspect of probability mathematics to their own personal definition to share their "information", then we're probably all better off!

Pretty sure each of the index funds have voting rules that bind the fund managers, they can't just go activist investor if they get a wild hair up their behind.

I do not think that word "science" means what you think it means! But you go girl, good to have you out there as a counterparty.

The guy sold his company to a U.S. corporation. Presumably the transaction took place in the U.S. and almost certainly some of the allegedly fraudulent accounting was passed off to HP in the U.S. You don't get to ignore the laws of a country you're in or doing business in just because you aren't...

Would you prefer news be written by those with conflicts if interest precisely because they have skin in the game? Reporters report, it's their job. Some of them are morons, some not, but to dismiss the entire profession because they do exactly what their profession demands, avoiding conflicts...

This was straight up accounting fraud like Enron and WorldCom and Tyco and.... In each of those cases the C-suite was prosecuted and many are still in prison. What specific crime by what specific banker would you like to see prosecuted? Note, it has to be breaking an actual specific law and an...

As a person who runs a faintly similar business model I alternate between hate and admiration for the way they manage to lock people and organizations in!

To be fair, if you're a school and you decide to use the google apps suite to communicate with parents, it requires them to use gmail to access all the features. Same concept with the MSFT cloud and probably others. Nothing nefarious, just a business decision on the school's part. If a parent...

You must have gone through a far different engineering program than me if they taught you that "not knowing too much" is a "good thing"! It always astounds me that otherwise intelligent, analytical folks throw in for beliefs of the type they would find appalling in their normal profession. I...

Kind of like the Nigerian scammers purposely put grammer errors in their solicitation emails so that they only waste time with the really dumb targets. These OH folks could be brilliant!

You're probably right but.....simply accepting Bitcoin for payment coupled with a system to convert it to USD immediately isn't really that risky. Gimicky, not necessary for a tax authority and certainly a solution looking for a problem, but not necessarily a financial risk beyond the cost of...

You're essentially asking the world to take your core beliefs as true and make you feel good about what you're doing. Several folks have done just that. A far harder but potentially much more life-changing approach is to examine your core beliefs which most people have never really done. Very...

Why in the heck would one trade something that they admit (and clearly in fact do) know nothing about! I'm guessing you haven't seen my favorite cartoon on the subject of this type of outlook: https://xkcd.com/1570/

Much like setting the federal funds rate also impacts the value of the dollar, but of course that's no manipulation when 'murica is doing it! Seriously, every country in the world "manipulates" their currency to some extent.

It's worth stopping to think about what "dividend paying stock" means. A stock that pays a $1.00 dividend is worth exactly $1.00 less the day it goes ex. If you had two identical companies, one that paid dividends and one that didn't, you'd have the same value at the end of a year with the...

There are hundreds of hedge funds that specialize in bonds! Plenty of them specialize in tiny corners of the bond market, for example buying entire subordinate tranches of a reorganizing company and holding the senior noteholders hostage for time in order to get more payout than strictly owed is...