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Many of us that have lived or worked in countries that are openly acknowledged in history as murderous dictatorships find the current US history, laws and trends disquieting.

Any thoughts on the Singapore dollar? They also have nice compact $1000 and $10,000 bills S$1.58 ~ USD$1.

De-TARPing to include returning their US Treasury/"AIG" loot first, tens of billions, that's a big FU to GS et al. I like it, time someone addressed the stupendous kleptocracy issues. Remaining under TARP becomes similar to unit discipline in the military - where whole units might be...

The Japanese market is hitting a 26 yr low and the 1989 crisis is approaching 20 years depending on which events mark its beginning - BOJ raising rates in May or the utter market collapse in December 1989. Japan may recognize those involved as a lost generation or that, in future histories, the...

Longer term, I probably favor windpower stations scaled up to 20-50 MW per rotor and space based power, as developed privately. Short term, natural gas is the cleanest fossil fuel, *new* large scale PWR/BWR nuclear plants in the US are probably not cost competitive, e.g. $10,000-$15,000/kW...

I doubt a lot of people are worrying so much about 2% / year inflation now. One might be more worried about 2% per month or day, later with a big hyperinflationary O.

"There is nothing to fear when Bernanke and Geithner stand behind you." Aren't you even a little worried about the financial equivalent of AIDS? One might be a little worried by how much of recent years events look like 1929-31 and 1974-1979 such as the Fed/Treasury/govt bailout attempts...

With GM and Chrysler, I wouldn't surprised to see us hit the 2010 unemployment "goal" this summer.

Many of the chronic diseases listed have digestive and supernutritional treatments that are systematically denigrated by the medical industry. From my technical perspective, presentation and guidance of medical science here has been so corrupted and distorted that Soviet "history" is...

Who has lost a penny+ at FDIC? The depositors over FDIC limits. The way some banks have been shut down in different years may have exacerbated the large depositors' losses where I am thinking of the late 1980s but newspaper details may not be reliable. <BR> <BR> Also in the late 1980s, I used...

In case anyone missed it, JQB's rear view of US gov bond performance is a major sell signal. Say you bought a 30 year Tbond at 10% yield per year. If inflation destroys the value of the principal repayment at year 29, your result is more like a 29 year series of mortgage payments...

He invested in hydrogen? Talk about fiddling while, er, Detroit burns.

For a real free market approach to get healthy, stay healthy, and out of the hospital, read these sites: http://doctoryourself.com/ http://www.lef.org/ http://orthomolecular.org/library/jom/index.shtml Saved me a fortune and a lot of misery, for both myself and my kids.

Self employed, I was nailed with a debilitating chronic illness seven years ago. Went to a conventional doctor, totally clueless - no help and some discouragement. After I was on the road to recovery (lots of digestive and nutritional supplements with a severely sugar free and starch free...

Big plus: no tax accounting every year and no tax until w/d, so turning over a $1 million account every day or two would skip reams of Schedule D filings for stock trading. Margin account IRAs allow much more frequent trading, ca once a day, than cash account IRAs. The implementation or...

I half expect PPT types to let Dow "test" 7xxx, CNBC announces pessimism and panic overnight, form a "double btm" and have CNBC announce the victory at Battle of Bulls Run this week.

Clearly missed B(l)arney Frank and Robert Rubin as early sources of the systemic errors forming this depression.

What a greedy statist dumb f---, 0.25%! Sounds like a Merrill Lynch et al shareholder who believes in GWB "free enterprise" or Obamanomics, and a Buy and Mold model. One last swing trade - load up on BGZ, TZA, TWM, RSW etc and turn off the lights as you leave the country. Hope UK totally...

I hope you are not considering using BAIS. Their system is completely unsuitable for active traders: 1. The order system is dangerously obsolete and balky, worse than older similar trading interfaces 10 years ago (more warning and menu pages to finish an order). e.g. Change orders may not...

The best financial ratings that I have seen for banks, insurance companies and stock brokerages were done by Martin Weiss and company. Weiss was the most predictive rater in the ratings business, where a C was common and A really meant high status. Weiss sold out to TheStreet.com and the...