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    Nadex Binary options

    This is the mentality that makes binaries, leveraged spread betting, horse racing, dog racing, cock fighting .. a business. It's an incurable disease, and a percentage of the population is inflicted with it. Winning is skill, whilst losing is bad luck or fraud - apparently.
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    Italy’s Struggling Economy Has World’s Healthiest People

    I too eat high-heeled boots.
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    Goldman Had 600 Cash Equity Traders In 2000; It Now Has 2

    Two cash traders One for each button :-P :-P :-P
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    Guy makes $160,000 and barely making it month to month...

    If your corporate background was finance, then talk about finance. If your corporate background was working at a boot factory, then perhaps you know less about finance than some others here. Like .. Would you trust a mechanic to do dental work?
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    Which analysts do you trust, if any?

    If you fail as a trader, you can always become an analyst.
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    Guy makes $160,000 and barely making it month to month...

    Think about getting a corporate job -as- a trader, then get back to us.
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    Guy makes $160,000 and barely making it month to month...

    In Sydney rent is lower than interest. And interest isn't deductible. That's interest only. No principal included. I want to short your employer's stock.
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    Guy makes $160,000 and barely making it month to month...

    Interest paid is also money down the drain. Usually more money down the drain than rent. The cost of speculation, perhaps.
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    Bitcoin Surpasses Gold

    Forget gold. Somewhere there's a bitcoin / yuan pairs trade.
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    Guy makes $160,000 and barely making it month to month...

    Obviously make money while renting it out? Or sitting long, and waiting for prices to rise - renting it out to reduce their negative carry slightly? In some countries you must make a property "available for rent" in order to expense the mortgage interest pre-tax. The interest can be sometimes...
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    Guy makes $160,000 and barely making it month to month...

    The rental yield on high end property is generally much lower than median range. You can rent it for less than your capital cost.
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    Guy makes $160,000 and barely making it month to month...

    Buying RE is mostly about "forced saving". Even an idiot son pays the mortgage for fear of losing his house. Equity indexes outperform RE *after costs*. On a aside - How many wealthy technical analysts / chartist traders do you know?
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    California Public University Fires 79 IT Workers; Replaces With H-1B Visa Holders

    Equality! Encourage women to study STEM subjects! Wait, what??
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    Which Country Punishes Productive People the Most?

    It's the "underground money changers" part, plus thus use of bitcoin to export yuan which is fairly gross money laundering. Amusingly in Australia, you have to be a white male to be charged with any financial offence now - lest a non-white male is caught, and screams, racism!! LOL.
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    Which Country Punishes Productive People the Most?

    Added to my ignore list :-P
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    Guy makes $160,000 and barely making it month to month...

    If your job can be done from home, it can be done from India. ... Key to the cost of living seems to be the level of concentration needed in your job. If you have to think / solve hard problems, you need sleep, small commute, minimal bull$hit -> higher expenses. If you're working in a...
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    Which Country Punishes Productive People the Most?

    vanzandt - I have a bridge for sale, that you might be interested in.
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    Which Country Punishes Productive People the Most?

    The perk is sneaking your illegal money out of China. $50k USD per person allowed to leave china per year. Yet they buy $1M+ property in cash on arrival. -All criminals-
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    Goldman's SecDB

    Kind of annoys me that the tech nerds build "global systems" that are never sharp enough to be useful in any specific region. One size fits all - never the cutting edge.
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