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Dude, pretty sure ROFLMAO doesn't mean what you think it means. Your posts are incoherent enough without adding that in there!

I'm glad we agree with the only point I'm trying to make here, that neither the Fed or lack of a debt ceiling create debt, congress and the President do. Not sure why that would have you rolling on the floor laughing though, you really need to get out more.

Just to clarify it's Dec 18th, 2017, not Dec 2018 which is what I assumed when I saw the headline.

Gotta love religious fundamentalist zealots who try to convince us that every other religion's fundamentalists are zealots, amazing lack of self awareness! Proselytizing is pretty much a core tenant of most religions that have lasted more than one generation, kind of by definition.

Well that goes without saying, I mean she wrote a song called Alien so what more evidence does the world need?

I'll just answer your last question, South Africa has about a 6% inflation rate. As a result, the interest rate there has to be higher just to keep deposits above water. If you looked at a forward curve, you's see the 1 year ZAR forward trading about 6% below todays rates. Note that the interest...

I tell you what, how about you, me, and Martinghoul meet at the Grassy Knoll in Dallas next Tuesday, Dec 5th. It turns out that the Grassy Knoll is exactly .5 miles from the Dallas Fed as the crow flies, and Dec 5th is exactly 50 years from when Kennedy was assassinated, going by the Muslim...

Got it, all makes sense now. My bad for the rushed look, thanks for setting me straight!

Well I'm confused. When I first typed this I looked at my last transaction which was buying 600 shares of an ETF, GSY, for which they charged just the flat $4.95 However when I look further back, they did charge me an "Esch Process Fee" which I assume includes the SEC fee for that same...

Bob, I know my Schwab IRA just charges the $4.95 commission and nothing else when I do a stock transaction. Which makes the below chart from Interactive Brokers highly deceptive, given that the Schwab fee is a total of $4.95, full stop, and the Interactive Brokers fee is $1 plus a bunch of...

If you'd ever worked with the Fed you'd know that statement you made was, as @Martinghoul nicely stated, silly. So I based my assertion on evidence you provided. If you indeed have that experience and are still spouting this nonsense, then you're either being disingenuous or unhinged, either way...

If you're talking actually moving to one of those places vice just investing that's a very good point.

The premise of this thread is that it's the Fed's fault that we have a large national debt and somehow the lack of a firm debt ceiling is also to blame, not the congress and president who authorized the spending that incurred. That's an idiotic position borne out of profound ignorance, and...

Completely agree, although my "customer service" veered off to hideous territory on several occasions. You'll also want to do a search here for IB and autoliquidation, variable and random margin changes...leading to autoliquidation, assessment of margin on futures debit spreads, and margin...

As I mentioned earlier the expensing vs requiring depreciation part of the tax bill is one of the only parts that I think will have a real impact so I agree somewhat there. That said, it's actually one of the least costly parts of the bill since it just shifts when treasury get's it's revenue...

I second that, my programmers know the space we work in so we can give them a rough explanation of a problem and they come back with a better solution than we could have specific in a fraction of the hours it took our previous offshore team. I can literally afford to pay them 5 times more and...

That's a nice conspiracy theory you've got yourself there. You could put the personal experience you have with the Fed on the head of a pin, don't even start with that "formal education" bullshit. Someone with formal education, experience, and who's had intelligent conversations with people who...

I think it's somewhat of an illusion that one of those places could provide returns or even safety if you believe the U.S. is on some kind of debt precipice. The U.S. economy is a big enough part of the world economy that, as they say, when the U.S. coughs the rest of the world catches a cold...

This isn't a very coherent thought. Like I quite clearly indicated in my example, you have your causality completely mixed up. Do you think it is Capital One's fault that I'm in debt because they offered me low credit card rates and I subsequently ran up credit card debt in the example I gave...