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I assume you are being sarcastic, since unemployment during the Great Depression of the 1930's was 25%, and we were nowhere near a Great Depression when Trump took office.

I takes a while for IB to verify new accounts. I waited for about 2 weeks before it was verified. I have no idea why.

I am all for tax cuts, and am well aware of the Laffer curve. Interesting theory, but the problem is it has never worked anywhere in real life. From: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2010/nov/09/mike-pence/mike-pence-says-raising-taxes-lowers-tax-revenues/ ... We also...

Nope. Tax cuts do increase GROWTH, but not enough to make up for the loss in revenue. The usual rule of thumb is that the growth only makes up 1/3 of the loss in revenue. Due to the latest federal tax cut, the federal 2018 deficit is projected at $804 billion (4.0% of GDP), vs $587 billion (3.2%...

Those features do seem very useful for testing strategies. Is this for futures, equities or options? Do your sim use real historical data?

My first question is why are you writing a manual sim? What features would it have that a combinations of the current brokers' paper/demo accounts and backtesting don't have?

Props to the what the new CEO Satya Nadella has done, but Microsoft has a long history of buying companies that were supposed to be money makers, but turned out to be dogs : Skype, Nokia handset business, aQuantive

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/jul/02/donald-trump/donald-trump-base-describing-gdp-growth-his-watch/ Trump said, "Watch those GDP numbers. We started off at a very low number, and right now we hit a 3.2 (percent). Nobody thought that was possible." This is inaccurate...

I don't know where the Bloomberg calendar is located, but Barrons magazine has a very comprehensive Economic calendar: http://online.barrons.com/mdc/public/page/9_3063-economicCalendar.html?mod=BOL_Nav_MAR_hpp

Where is the IB server located?

I ran across this article by a NY Times journalist that uses a standing desk / treadmill in the office. It includes a link to a treadmill made specifically to go under a standing desk; I didn't know that such a device existed...

Actually the fall in GE stock price had very little effect on the DOW. The DOW is price weighted, so at $14, if GE price fell 20%, it wouldn't have as much effect on the DOW as Boeing ($333) falling 2%.

Another important segment is the marijuana industry. STZ paid $100 millions to buy 10% of a marijuana company, and that stake is now worth $600 million.

You may be interested in a podcast that NPR's Planet Money did on MoviePass 4 days ago. Very entertaining. The MoviePass guys weren't as mad as one might assume. They just got way more subscribers than anticipated, and are now trying to figure out how to monetize that large subscriber base.

In the USA, there are 19 states that have NO minimum age for marriage, as long as the parents consent. Since the year 2000, there are children as young as 12 getting married, usually to a much older spouse.

Politifact: MOSTLY TRUE: Undocumented immigrants less likely to commit crimes than U.S. citizens http://www.politifact.com/california/statements/2017/aug/03/antonio-villaraigosa/mostly-true-undocumented-immigrants-less-likely-co/ Quote from the article: ... the 2015 National Academy of Sciences...

Yeah, right. The liberals are lying, the Swedish government is lying, and the German government if lying. Only Fox News is telling the truth.

Perhaps you should get your news from a source other than Fox News. After Trump and Fox News announced about the rapes by immigrants in Sweden, the Swedish government responded that they had no knowledge of that. After Trump stated that immigrants had driven up crime Germany, Germany responded...

There are quite a few taxpayers in the USA that pay well over 50% marginal tax rate, some approach 62%. For example, a single, high-income, self-employed person who lives in Manhattan, pays 37% max IRS rate, 9% max NY state rate, 3.8% max NY City rate, plus both sides of FICA Social Security...

The high tax states, New York, Connecticut, etc., haven't seen anything yet when it comes to high earners leaving. Most of the high earners in those states haven't yet realized that after losing the Federal deduction, their NET state and local taxes will being increasing 50 to 60%. The only...