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Trader groupies? In my dim and addled memory, all I can recall were hopelessly hair-teased back-office secretaries from staten island hoping to hook up with a husband. Young ladies whos' poise and grace would key your car. Kinda like that movie, working girl. That was NOT a joke - that...

More than totally agree! I'm Maintaining structural long us equities, but am very cautiously looking at fed's next move and earnings surprises q4 05. I think that fed raises, earnings come out crappy and are blamed on katrina, and this rally fails to materialize higher, putting us back into...

Interesting that this (nnpp.ob) was mentioned in the WSJ article by eisinger (see below thread) http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=55064 This has been ranging from $2-2.50 after a selloff in April from $4 when a CNBC squawk box appointment was cancelled by the CEO after...

gonna party like its 1999.... oops, wrong decade.

Nope. Sorry. Greenie has said that the long bond yield is going up come hell or high water. And he doesn't care what recession he has to start to do it.

They'll let them in but give them inferior citizenship.

Although you have to congratulate the US government on its SPR trade... Buy between 30-45, sell at $67 ish. Great trade, guys! Can I get a tax decrease now? (didn't think so)

As usual, you're wrong Southamerica. While you might like to think that fully automated production factories are the future, and previously have been, the 'china effect' has introduced a whole new variable - essentially free labor. Go read Ted Fishman's book 'China inc.' where fully...

Central cities... central cities... central cities. That's been my mantra. Spot on, buddy! Unless there are successful edge cities with jobs to support the population, those places out in the middle of nowhere become the new lower class housing areas. But gas prices gotta STAY up...

What one should and what one does have are two different matters. The sad part is that this debt has accumulated not because of useful capital investments such as cars, etc... but rather one domino's pizza at a time. You know, they sold manhattan for $24 in baubles way back when. Draw...

Yours, sir. Your amount. Don't forget the lesson of Homestead, FL. Rebuilding money dried up after about 2 years and the town was basically dead thereafter. You can rebuild the buildings, but without the jobs there provided by local businesses (many of which will probably relocate out...

I concur. I don't think that rate hikes are over until the far end of the yield curve starts to hike - and that's even with inversion. A significant slowdown with anaemic growth might give people enough time to take a breather and to give china a breather too. current events, though...

If you have $2 million, and a little self restraint, the chance to leave a legacy to your children of that magnitude is absolutely worth the opportunity cost.

Here's how I think it works (from readings in the popular press) Old law - You buy stuff & put it on credit cards. You go bk7. They don't bother to take the worthlesss stuff and you get your credit wiped clean with a nasty mark against you for 7 years. New law - you buy stuff and put...

For once I agree with EqtTrdr. At dow 7000, I buy the world & say: "100% room up to go go go go make $$$!" But doesn't value investing right now feel better than growth? I know it does for me... Scaling in Slooowly to any longer term equity positions, personally, which is an unusual...

Meet the new boss... same as the old boss..

Yes, I know that the knee jerk reaction is to say "duh, its inflationary." But stop for a second and think again. While the value of money decreases (inflationary), the prices of goods are also decreasing (deflationary). If "inflation" is under control, doesn't the deflationary arm of...

Hmmm... not sure about that libertad. China may be able to keep iron fisted control of the population through buying them off with shiny baubles & much improved standard of living. Any parallels you see there? As far as US going the way of Italy or France; while you were never going to get...

Hey... you know something? Think about that for a second. All the poor blokes who get caught on upward ARMS, either holding on or biting the bullet 2% higher and refinancing into a 30 year at about 8%. So, to afford their mcmansion, they have increasing amounts of personal income...

Quote from yeayo: China Smina...that's all I hear all day long on CNBC. 1.Stop watching that crap and start watching the market! China has a smaller economy than Italy. 2. Today, yes. A huge % of bank loans in China will never be repaid due to the natural corruption of the...