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    hedge fund death

    Who are the investors of these active management stocks funds? Retail or institutional? " Indeed, the top active managers have delivered. For example, $US10,000 invested in the Yacktman Fund on Nov. 23, 2004, would have been worth $US27,844 on Nov. 25 of this year; the same amount invested in...
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    Spoofing becoming illegal

    Any comments? http://www.activetradermag.com/index.php/c/Trading_Strategies/d/Quantifying_deception " Quantifying deception By Active Trader Staff The markets, as some sage once observed, function to inflict the most pain on the most people. To accomplish this, they engage in any number of...
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    Spoofing becoming illegal

    Thanks NB. Who/What are the value traders? Apparently, they are still trading daily, Why?
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    How we can fix the economy and help both the rich and the poor at once

    " To get a broader consumption tax, she said the UK government introduced a tax on "sin industries" such as those selling oil and gas, alcohol, cigarettes and fuel. " http://www.theage.com.au/business/the-economy/tax-the-rich-not-the-poor-corporate-advisers-tell-tony-abbott-20141201-11xo8q.html
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    Has this place died?

    Perhaps we really need to investigate and understand Why another popular trading forum site can state that: " Most users ever online was 11,980, May 26, 2013 at 12:56pm. " Probably a survey could be done by sending a professionally designed questionnaire to all posters/ members for why they...
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    Has this place died?

    Spelling has now been corrected! lol BTW, I think the link below might be of interest to some of you. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_life-cycle_management#Product_life-cycle
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    Predicting the next global financial earthquake is relatively easy

    " http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-11-21/have-central-banks-entered-undeclared-war for example the Federal Reserve's $16 trillion bailout of literally the entire Western banking sector in the last Global Financial Meltdown. (The Levy Institute came up with $29 trillion after poring over all...
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    Why does China not see how their economic strategy will fail?

    http://costsofwar.org/ http://costsofwar.org/article/economic-cost-summary " US Costs of Wars through 2014: $4.4 Trillion and Counting " " Opportunity Costs of War Spending: What could the economy look like if we had not spent that money on war? Were jobs lost or gained by war? Military...
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    Why does China not see how their economic strategy will fail?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_reaction " Chain Reactions in Economics In 1963 Friedman and Schwartz [5] proposed a positive feedback loop as a mechanism for catastrophic failures in economics: “It happens that a liquidity crisis in a unit fractional reserve banking system is precisely...
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    Why does China not see how their economic strategy will fail?

    Wars, wars, wars ... Stupid wars! Obviously the terrorists somehow have higher IQ. They just intentionally set up a trap in order to stimulate more wars. Then the free world simply follows their trap! Spending so much money and resources to prevent terrorists! (Rather than to prevent poor!)...
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    Why does China not see how their economic strategy will fail?

    " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth Five variables were examined in the original model. These variables are: world population, industrialization, pollution, food production, and resource depletion. ... In 2014 Graham Turner concluded that "preparing for a collapsing global...
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    How we can fix the economy and help both the rich and the poor at once

    " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_chain A value chain is a chain of activities that a firm operating in a specific industry performs in order to deliver a valuable product or service for the market. The concept comes from business management and was first described and popularized by...
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    How we can fix the economy and help both the rich and the poor at once

    Should have done the two things below simultaneously for long long time: 1. Perhaps one thing to consider is not all companies to be taxed with same way/%, depending on different nature and objectives of individual industries/companies. Utilities should be lowest tax. ... 2. Maximum annual...
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    Famous expectancy quotes or proverbs?

    Agree, I think this amazing mechanical rule would work well! :)
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    What exactly is "Open Mind"?

    I think I am fairly open minded to your conviction above. Thank you!
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    Predictors of 1929 crash see 65% chance of 2015 recession

    A leading index here: http://investmenttools.com/futures/bdi_baltic_dry_index.htm http://marketrealist.com/2014/10/why-baltic-dry-index-decreasing/
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    How financial crises develop

    How financial crises develop http://forumblog.org/2014/11/how-financial-crises-develop/ By Aitor Erce and Irina Balteanu Nov 12 2014 " The feedback loop between fiscal and financial instability has been at the core of the recent turmoil in Europe (Acharya et al. 2014). In some countries...
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    How do you hedge your long term stock portfolio?

    Perhaps starting from here: http://www.amazon.com/TAIL-RISK-HEDGING-Creating-Portfolios/dp/0071791752 TAIL RISK HEDGING: Creating Robust Portfolios for Volatile Markets Hardcover – January 20, 2014 by Vineer Bhansali " Tail Risk Hedging explores how to: * Generate profits from volatility...
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    there is a manhattan in China, but this manhattan, well see for yourself...

    China's Li Doesn't Believe His Own Numbers 10 Mar 5, 2014 10:47 PM EST By Adam Minter " China’s Premier Li Keqiang isn’t the sort of man to blush in public. But yesterday, when he went in front of China’s national legislature and targeted 7.5% growth in gross domestic product for 2014, he...
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    What about China 2014?

    Here Comes The "China Hard Landing" - Full Bank Of America Presentation Slides Submitted on 09/28/2011 http://www.zerohedge.com/news/here-comes-china-hard-landing-full-bank-america-presentation-slides
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