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    The Economy Makes Drudgereport

    Agreed. Dow "needs" to close above 10k for at least one day, preferably Friday, so it can be celebrated across most if not all the news services. Public needs to get going what ever has left into this, including end of year bonuses 401k contributions if any. End of year window dressing is a...
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    BRAVO Italians

    What the... And we call ourselves patriots and true Americans? Sharp contrast between the two articles. Italians lost 19 and openly display their sorrow, national mouring, and public recognition. We have lost 450 and counting and our response is "bring them on"? and on top of it try to...
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    You can make a phone call to the FED like this guy :D

    OWNERSHIP OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE Source: ** Federal Reserve Directors: A Study of Corporate and Banking Influence ** - - Published 1976 http://heart7.net/mcf/federalreserve.htm Brilliant. The 2 best ways to funnel taxpayer money from the US treasury to private hands: . Federal...
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    Ten Sigma Event(s)

    excerpts Freak Financial Waves For the financial markets, these freak waves are just as commonplace. Whether it is the 1987 stock market crash, the peso crisis of 1994, or Asia or LTCM and Russian in 1998, they are occurring with much more frequency. They now tend to follow one another in...
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    lol Perle must be reading EliteTrader

    Richard Perle thinks the invasion was illegal War critics astonished as US hawk admits invasion was illegal Oliver Burkeman and Julian Borger in Washington Thursday November 20, 2003 http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=374197&highlight=Perle+AND+illegal#post374197...
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    BRAVO Italians

    How the italians mourn their war dead: ROME, Nov. 17 — The sight was extraordinary, but less so than the sound, or rather the lack of it. Although thousands upon thousands of people filled one of this city's most chaotic squares during the evening rush hour on Monday, the decibel level...
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    Patriot Act Expansion Moves Through Congress

    by Jim Lobe WASHINGTON -- Congress is poised to approve new legislation that amounts to the first substantive expansion of the controversial USA Patriot Act since it was approved just after the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and the Pentagon. Acting at the Bush administration's...
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    Afghan poppy crop leaping; Cultivation doubled from 2002 to 2003

    Reuters WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 — Poppy cultivation in Afghanistan doubled between 2002 and 2003 to a level 36 times higher than in the last year of rule by the Taliban, according to White House figures released Friday. THE AREA planted with poppies, used to make heroin and morphine, was...
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    Hypothetical scenario - how much would you risk?

    Is this a singular event? or one of many consecutive trades with same 65% probability and 5:1 R/R? and how many? to properly apply position sizing, n is required, along with total max pain numbers. It's similar to a spinning wheel with 65% painted red 35% black. Red pays 5 to 1, black...
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    Bush: Generating Crises and Winning Votes by Pretending to Solve Them

    old trick, why re-invent the wheel? "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." [H. L. Mencken] It's like sheepl in a farm. Sheer them on...
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    Funny? What do you think?

    Patriot Act III coming you way : Operator: "Thank you for calling Pizza Hut. : May I have your..." : : Customer: "Hi, I'd like to order." : : Operator: "May I have your NIDN first, sir?" : : Customer: "My National ID Number, yeah, hold on, eh, : it's 6102049998-45-54610." : ...
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    US Dictatorship: General Franks doubts Constitution Will Survive WMD Attack

    "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin
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    What will be the end result of the elimation of bullets be on pro firms/traders?

    Agreed, possibly not as drastic as we might think but the effects will be there. If you recall the post PDT rule times, less number of smaller lots, much less smaller traders. Again, the change was not drastic but it was noticeable. At the end...every bit counts. Cheers
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    Bush's Lie

    osama, sadam are tacked away for future reference. anthrax attacks silently swept under the rag. Remember this? Anthrax matches Army spores Bioterror: Organisms made at a military laboratory in Utah are genetically identical to those mailed to members of Congress. From UCLA Department...
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    Sounds Familiar?

    Sad but true. It's the same old business of war. Oil Shrub Mafia and Company knows the profitability. Why re-invent the wheel? It's all in the family. Take a look at GW's grandfather. George W. Bush's Grandfather Traded with Nazis - Even After Pearl Harbor The Summer of '42 The...
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    Soros on American Bubble

    excerpt "To explain the significance of the transition, I should like to draw on my experience in the financial markets. Stock markets often give rise to a boom-bust process, or bubble. Bubbles do not grow out of thin air. They have a basis in reality—but reality as distorted by a...
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    Growth based on Debt

    Agreed. OTH, food, energy, transportation costs have been going up. I'm not convinced that inflation numbers as reported represent the "true" picture. I could be mistaken. Numbers come out, excluding food, energy, and transportation. eg. on energy, heating oil prices have been up close...
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    Bush: backs dictator who boils victims to death

    Exactly. Same old way of doing business. Take a look at the picture in the following article. A picture is worth 1000 words http://ming.tv/flemming2.php/_d10/_v10/__show_article/_a000010-000496.htm Gov't cozy up to thugs, put them in office, sell weapons, makes them evildoers down the...
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    Trade War brewing? :-O

    A good read on trade wars, protectionism, WTO etc.. The Silent Takeover : Global Capitalism and the Death of Democracy http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/006055973X/qid=1069608758/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/002-1211728-5449655?v=glance&n=507846 "Widely acclaimed economist Noreena...
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    F.B.I. Scrutinizes Antiwar Rallies

    Is this the same John Ashcroft? In October 1997, then Missouri Senator John Ashcroft wrote an opinion, "Keep Big Brother's Hands Off the Internet" where he argued that "The Clinton administration would like the Federal government to have the capability to read any international or domestic...
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