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You can hold a financials futures position and the offsetting spot position to get pretty close to the institutional interest rate, since the interest rate is built into the differential between the future and the spot price.

At the point that you can tell us you never went to public school, never driven on a public road, never flown on a plane using the U.S. ATC system, never used GPS, never used the internet, never used power, never used any technology or medication that was developed out of federal R&D tax credits...

Well I learned a new word (parvenue) today, so thanks for that! There's a decent group of smart folks here, although a couple have recently left. Use the cretins for entertainment, they're like a court jester.

That's how @NeoTrader rolls, read some of his other posts. He watched a YouTube video or read a book about Sweden, so he knows far more about it than the person who's lived there. Your experience is worthless in the face of his naive but pure logic! Which itself is pretty damn weak. Next up...

Well we can agree on that! I do recommend reading Atlas Shrugged, if for no other reason than to understand where the people who see it as a kind of religion are coming from. Even if it is a bit painful like reading Mein Kampf or The Communist Manifesto.

And all that hate from you "people" toward people like Stalin are simply a tribute to him and others like him. It's simply too damn funny to see rightists/fascists/nazis getting triggered like that. See how that works? Just because someone does something that liberals (or whatever group you...

So Germany didn't have a penny to their name or any infrastructure to speak of after WWII, Belgium, France, Netherlands not much better. And even if you take Marshall Plan money into account, they were by no means wealthy countries when the Marshall Plan ended. But they have managed to increase...

I think we need to know your definition of a socialist country to answer your question. If it's Venezuela or North Korea, then again, we're in violent agreement. It appears that your definition of socialism as mutually elusive with capitalism isn't the one that most of the western world uses, so...

That's a funny question to ask given that I provided you a big freaking example right in my post! The German "Democratic" Republic was communist. The Federal Republic of Germany was socialist. As I stated, life was a whole lot better in West Germany than East, that's pretty much beyond dispute...

To be fair he's doing a lot more work on behalf of the company than a typical hedge fund GP does for their investments, if you want to contort it into that comparison.

I always like to bring up Somalia when the pinheads of the world feel the need to introduce Venezuela as a model socialist country. It's the utopia of conservative ideals right? No evil central government, no evil social programs or even the faintest whiff of socialism, no taxes, no gun control...

And the German Democratic Republic was Democratic, it was in the name see? The statement "socialism is a transitory condition en route to communism." is pretty empirically false. You did a good job of listing communist countries above, can you let us all know which ones "transited" to communism...

You don't discuss ideas at all, you throw out a bunch of quotes from books we've all read. Which adds nothing of any value whatsoever, that's why you don't see the rest of us throwing out Keynes or Hobbes, or Locke, or Rousseau or Ralph Nader for that matter, despite the fact that like you we've...

Again with quoting Ayn Rand as some kind of great thinker. Seriously? The same Ayn Rand who criticized social security all the way up to the time she started collecting it? The one who criticized Medicare all the up to the point that we all paid to take care of her health problems from smoking...

Do you really not grasp the difference between socialism and communism? None of those countries are socialist, but Norway, Finland, Sweden, France, and Germany are. Things are working out pretty damn well for ordinary people in those places. As @Slartibartfast advised, get a passport, develop a...

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Dude this isn't a debate you "win" or need to save face in. You've been repeatedly told by a bunch of people on this thread each of whom has significantly more trading experience and finance education that you, that your understanding of options is simply incorrect and incomplete. That's a...

Makes sense, thanks.

This is probably a either a really dumb question on my part or one of those English/American translation issues, but do you mind explaining what that means?

Certainly free to disagree with Dawkins, he's controversial on purpose. My point was simply to point out the conflation with Hawking, who as you pointed out is widely respected. Probably as much for his ability to simplify complex physics to layman format in his books as his theoretical...