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a study that combined this data with demographic info would be very interesting.

U contracted to buy at 80. that is what a futures contract is.

With the lack of self control such a need implies perhaps you should reconsider trading?

I wonder what a dollar collapse would do the the economics of this type of activity?

"American college education industry is exactly like the housing industry. They both were pumped up by easy access of bank loans, therefore overpriced and a big bubble. Borrowers are unable to payback the loans." Very well put. The college education racket/myth has trapped many people. Go...

Here is a plan: Why don't we put these people to work? Plenty of infrastructure needs to be painted. Plenty of cities have litter that needs to be picked up, flower gardens that need to be weeded, gum that needs to be scraped off sidewalks, etc. Lets for big work crews, kind of in the...

oops posted in wrong area.

1. decide what length of time to calculate the standard of deviation over. 2. Calculate the mean (average) of this list of numbers (say of the close, if you are using the closing price, which is standard) 3. Subtract the mean from each data point you are using (each closing price). 4...

the economy as most people remember it was a hoax, a long term bubble where a huge portion of the population found fulfillment in jobs that made no economic sense, or were actually destroying economic values. This is not a depression or a recession, this is in fact reality.

"They are looking for very well put-together traders with an organized plan and scalable strategies with positive expectancies." Bone I was curious what kind of "scalable" are you talking about?

The application of Portfolio theory and all the rest boils down to nothing more than a strategy. If large numbers use it blindly (like they do) it breaks down. It is amazing that these "professional investors" follow academic tenets while having very little understanding of what they are...

If I understand your position, in your view there is no difference between the potential and the actual. For example, one man on an island has the knowledge and skills to build shelter. I say UNTILL he actually builds it, it is not wealth. You seem to be saying because he has the knowledge...

I don't think knowledge or skills are properly called wealth. They are skills that can be exchanged for money, which is itself a claim on wealth and not wealth itself.

Olias those are some good points. The problem is, who gets to judge which crap is useless? It seems to me most of what people buy and own is useless clutter. It is not just "informercials". TV? I have not watched it in years. High tech sound system? I could care less. Why...

I think the point of confusion is a lack of distinction between real wealth and claims on wealth. Lets say there is a fixed amount of real wealth in society and 100 purchase credits (money). If the state handed out 5 extra purchase credits (claims on wealth), it would benefit the...

zdreg, certainly an option worth considering

the root of his psychological malady might be his bizarre physical deformity: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-dqoEyYXx4

Is there some type of campaign going on against apple or is it the work of the invisible meme?

at some point he may need to offload the huge GLD position into the retail fund.

Great way to offload all the losing hedge fund bets.