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Don't start an intelligent discourse on me now, guys. I love it when someone gives me the opportunity to post their thoughts, it sparks a debate, and it causes me to challenge some of my most deeply held biases. It makes me more prepared, no matter what may lurk ahead.

I hail from just north of the rotting, smoldering, rusting former auto capital of the world, Ye' Olde World Motor City (Detroit), U.S.A. Think Mad Max meets Escape from L.A.

sonofabitchmesister - who reversed my handle? ANNOUNCEMENT: HEAR YE', HEAR YE'...I am ByLoSellHi, not ByHiSellLo. :eek:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/business/16fund.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1 "“Cheap valuations are simply a symptom of what’s wrong, not the catalyst to get the market out,” said Richard Bernstein, chief investment strategist at Merrill Lynch. After all, just because stocks are trading at...

The British Pound Sterling is on the verge of historic collapse, as is the U.K. economy - both built on pillars of sand.

I was hungover, asswipe.

Okay, whoever recommended Malwarebytes - thanks. That's a kick ass program that I didn't ever know about before.

The biggest reason to move to the paid verison is that the free version of Avira doesn't have email scanning.

The Intel Atom is decent enough for netbook applications, but I would want something significantly faster and more proven for a trading rig.

I got my Lenovo Thinkpad T61 with a Penryn T8300 Core 2 Duo and 2GB of stock RAM for $640 on the EPP program - a buddy of mine worked for IBM and I was able to use his discount even after IBM sold off their laptop division to Lenovo.

Mods - I didn't know if this belonged in Economics or Chit Chat, but feel free to move it. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=as80aWlHdA1M&refer=home Poverty, Pension Fears Drive Japan's Elderly Citizens to Crime By Stuart Biggs and Sachiko Sakamaki Nov. 14...

[b]Apollo's Realogy May Default, Offers to Exchange Debt (Update1) http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aytFNmXoFWR4&refer=home By Caroline Salas and Pierre Paulden Nov. 14 (Bloomberg) --[b] Realogy Corp., owner of the Century 21 and Coldwell Banker brands, is at risk of...

If you are confident in your convictions, you should buy the 2x ETFs on the indexes. Easy money.

People on Brickell Boulevard are getting reamed for this very reason - their HOA rates were already sky high, and now, there are lots of units going dark.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/14/business/14place.html?_r=1&oref=slogin Worst May Be Yet to Come for Citigroup By ERIC DASH Published: November 13, 2008 After a year of red ink, a months-long plunge in its share price and a $25 billion government rescue, you might think the worst was...

Those houses are absolute garbage - and yes, I happen to know a little bit about construction. Production, baby. They knocked those out by the dozens per week. By the way, the person who said the HOA fees are crazy is right - that's the way it is all over Florida, though - between taxes, HOA...

"General Growth Properties Inc., the nation's second largest mall operator, warned it will file for bankruptcy if it cannot refinance or extend nearly $1 billion in debt due for renewal next month." http://www.planostar.com/articles/2008/11/13/plano_star-courier/news/78.txt

You're such a moron. Your moron-ness knows no boundaries. http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/02/google-to-2000share-somebody-muzzle-blodget/

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aYZezaUiLEr4&refer=home U.S. Jobless Claims Reach Seven-Year High of 516,000 (Update1) By Bob Willis Nov. 13 (Bloomberg) -- First-time claims for U.S. unemployment insurance rose last week to the highest level since September 2001...

"Sears hasn’t “made the investments that would cause consumers to start coming to the stores more, and on top of that, the economy’s causing everyone to spend less in general,” Jones said. " .... "While Chairman Edward Lampert has downplayed the importance of revenue growth, the...