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At least part of the reason you get so many people with MS degrees applying for a job as a secretary is that the universities are cranking out MS degrees that are stunningly inappropriate for any conceivable business purpose. People who get MS degrees in electrical engineering generally get...

Most VIX related black swan events I can think of involve a severe stock market drop.

Traditionally, the right wing kooks get elected after the left wing kooks debauch the money.

1/2 + 1/4 + 1/6 + 1/9 = 37/36, so the right ratios are 2% use 1/2 x 36/37 = 18/37 and its risk is 2% x 18/37 = 36%/37. 4% use 1/4 x 36/37 = 9/37 and its risk is 4% x 9/37 = 36%/37. 6% use 1/6 x 36/37 = 6/37 and its risk is 6% x 6/37 = 36%/37. 9% use 1/9 x 36/37 = 4/37 and its risk is 9% x 4/37 =...

When I've dealt with them, I've found the EPA to be pretty reasonable. Sometimes it can be hard to figure out what they want you to do as they seem to have a rule where they're not supposed to give you advice. (But you can ask them for their opinion on "best practices" which works out to be the...

Regarding the price of oil and international relations, has anyone else read the book "The Oil Card"? Here's the Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/The-Oil-Card-Economic-Warfare/dp/097779539X

Your stomach produces muriatic acid with pH of 1 or 2. Unsurprisingly, you can stick your bare arm up to your armpit in HCl with no damage (uh, wash it off after trying this). I've done it. If you doubt this, go on to youtube and look for the videos of people pouring HCl on themselves. Peroxide...

"Game changed. Looool the game never changes because human nature never changes." Over the long run, sure, the game never changes. But for the present situation, buy the dips and sell the rips is good advice. With 2008, the game did change, at least temporarily, because of Fed action. One of...

Gold is a miraculous substance. Drop by a scrap yard and buy a thousand pounds of electronic scrap (circuit boards). Remove the gold "fingers" and dissolve the base metals out from under the gold plate with muriatic acid and a mild source of oxidation (bubble air through an aquarium aerator, for...

I think "dick" is the wrong word for Maverick74 or Laissez Faire. Of the two, Maverick74 is what we call a "troll".

I suspect you know a lot more about this, None Business, and I appreciate your comments. I don't buy mutual funds, just stocks, and what I find strange is that I don't seem to have any difficulty finding what I think are reasonably cheap stocks. Regarding P/S, of course there a bunch of reasons...

I also don't see the economy as broken. The stocks are going higher because the companies are making more money. And that may be because the Federal Reserve (essentially) printed more money. So some part of corporate profits, or all of it, may be due to artificial manipulation by the Federal...

Also sometimes there's an economy of scale that makes it better for a company to sell shares than to slowly grow size. Or there's a risk of competition unless they're quick. But having made excuses for them, I would never buy into an IPO. Well at least I would never buy in as anything other than...

I saw Nuance two different ways the last couple weeks. They're running a radio ad for a "pdf" software. This is in competition with Adobe I guess. The second is that they made the "most declined" stock filter I run around Friday.

One of my buddies has a gold mine and I go up there and mess around with the locals regularly. Some of them are hobby miners and some do it for a living, for better or worse. Of course we all love gold and are, to one degree or another, "gold bugs". As far as a hedge against inflation, you do...

Suppose a whole bunch of people bought houses, and then lost their houses due to finally being foreclosed, and then went into the rental market. Wouldn't that increase pressure on the rental market and perhaps cause rents to rise?

Over the long term, stock prices might follow intrinsic values that could be predicted. But the long term is very difficult to predict. And the short term behavior of stock prices mostly has to do with human behavior. There's enough positive feedback built into the short term structure of the...

Yes, depression began in 2007 to 2009 depending on exactly what you want to time it with. Maybe the leading indicators are best. And it's true that the Fed can't influence the velocity of money. What they can do is react to it and that they are doing very strongly. My guess is that as Obama...

Fascinating thread. Well written and thanks to the participants. My feeling on the depression is that it began in 2008 and it's still fairly strong. There are a lot of differences between this one and the previous. The US is now a developed economy rather than an agricultural economy and my...

Luck being far more important than skill, it appears there's a good chance I will end up owing taxes on my trading for 2015. I did a little over 250,000 shares (one way) in October and I dread having to fill out a Schedule D with all those buys and sells especially since most of it was with a...