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Firstly, this is something that I have said a whole number of times before. I am happy to explain yet again, if you like. Would you like me to? Secondly, as someone who volunteers to make categorical statements about these proposals constituting evil and unwarranted govt intervention...

Firstly, your links don't work. Secondly, the money fund industry, as it exists today, is a scam and a danger to society. As such, the rules governing it need to change, as I have said on many threads here in the past. The proposed reforms go in the right direction, so I, for one, would...

Dunno about stoxx... Bobl's dead, 'cause it's rates are low in Europe for a long time (LTRO).

There's a lot of metrics... You can use the household savings rate, the total debt (private and public)/GDP, etc etc.

Brilliant! This must be some more of that secret knowledge from the CFA curriculum... Keep 'em coming pls, bwol.

Not Siva-Jothy, perchance?

How about this: http://www.thereformedbroker.com/2012/02/05/get-your-shit-together/

I think Jordan just responded to this... "Given this difficult environment, we remain firmly committed to defending the minimum exchange rate of CHF 1.20 per euro. This commitment applies at any time, from the moment the market opens in Sydney on Monday to when it closes in New York on...

Well, I'll be damned... Ain't we all one happy little family now?

This is all priced in by the futures mkt. Unless your broker doesn't do the FX carry correctly (e.g. like IB), this is no reason to prefer futures over spot.

Well, it's a combination of things, normally... I stare at the shape of the strip very hard and try to find stuff that appears out of whack (let's say, too steep or too flat or too convex or too concave or whatever). That suggests to me a spread or a fly that may look interesting. Once I...

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How interesting it is that you practice the very thing that you accuse me of? Why such ready dismissal of people who happen to disagree with your views? Everyone of them is a "shill". How unoriginal! [B] Not at all. I start with the premise that official statistics are the only statistics...

I listened to parts of it and I will listen to the whole thing, since you insist. If I remember correctly, no, he was not referring to QE. He was implying that the Fed was actually directly intervening in the mkt. Good night. We can resume (or not) tomorrow.

I googled the quote. The first link that comes up is this: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/trimtabs-explains-why-todays-very-very-suspicious-nfp-number-really-down-29-million-past-2-mont And yes, as I said, I saw that the ZH article was quoting Biderman. I know of him and have no respect...

I have heard of Biderman. He's the guy who was claiming at one point that the Fed PPT was holding the stock mkt up, isn't he? And if you think for a moment that he's the only guy out there collecting high-frequency tax withholdings data, you're sorely mistaken. If you'd like me to locate some...

Oh, come on, denner... Is ZH the only thing you read? Do you treat everything posted by ZH as gospel? The above is beyond silly.

Sorry, but I just can't stop beating this particular dead horse... Here's CalculatedRisk: http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2012/02/employment-not-in-labor-force-actually.html I am somewhat gratified to see that there are respected people out there who seem to share my opinion of HeroZedge.

Oooooh, look at that: http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2012/02/no-rick-santelli-and-zero-hedge-one-million-people-did-not-drop-out-of-the-labor-force-last-month/ On that note, you have yerself a nice w/e, sire... Have a chilled Chinese alcoholic beverage!

Yep, agreed... In rates, ironically, vol is already so low that the trade might almost to be long vol, in hopes that all sorts of fun stuff will happen (e.g. Fed raising rates early or smth like that). Other than that, it's not entirely clear, given it's already moved a lot. Maybe stuff like...