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the problem is the deflation is being fought so hard that it will lead to inflation in the near future, maybe even this year. All the people buying bonds had better be ready to sell, and of course they missed out on the nice stock market rally.

the only reform we really need is to educate the public about the constitution and then start living by it. Its the best constitution ever written, if we would only follow it more closely.

someone said i was making the wrong bets, well the truth is if I would have just bought or shorted the stocks I would have made good money, thats the problem.

I suspect the ideal increment is either 1, 2, or 5 cents depending on the price of the stock and how many shares it trades. Low priced stocks that are also very liquid could trade single pennies no problem, higher priced stocks with less volume should probably trade nickels to improve...

"There is no question that individual investors who trade in lots of 100 or 200 shares have benefited from the narrower spreads. But there is evidence that institutional investors have suffered. Big trades of thousands of shares are more likely to exceed the number of shares offered at the best...

I swing trade and I can post all freaking day if I want, and still make more money than all the churn monkeys out there. this idea of either you trade or you post is bs rhetoric to avoid the issue.

this idea that the Democrats are against deficit spending is absolutely nuts ! If you honestly think we woud still be running surpluses under Gore you are totally insane.

sit on your hands, you are just getting trigger happy and paying too much attention to the news. There is absolutely no sell signal yet.

I have gone back to stocks and am considering SSF's. All I want to do are simple directional bets and I haven't been able to make that work with options. Black Scholes is bullshit as far as I'm concerned.

I don't think market neutral is working right now, nor has it worked for the past few months straight. If you are using this with big leverage you are skating on thin ice.

stocks going up bonds going up gold going up all at the same time. this only means one thing to me, and that is big money is being pumped into the financial system by the fed.

"If China is really the new model of growth someone will have to explain how you can have innovation and entreprenuership without liberty." The REAL growth in China is not in the heart of China, it is the newly semi-free market , semi-democratic provinces that china is using as an experiment...

as for blasting Greenspan, the time to blast him was 1996, and NOBODY blasted him, he was Greenspan The Great.

yes it is "stagflation", absolutely correct. We just had a boom, and without Fed intervention and massive deficit spending, we would now have a Bust, i.e. deflation, and then Bush could go down in history like Herbert Hoover. Bush and Greenspan know this, and they are just doing what they have...

I have known people from England, Germany, France, Cuba, Vietnam, China, and many other places, mostly through work. All of them moved here for a better life. They maintain their patriotism for the homeland, but they know they can live better here than anywhere else, they voted with their feet.

humans as a race have not benefitted one iota from socialism ! Ask somebody who actually lived in a socialist system, not some overpaid PHD. who never did an honest days work in his life, and thinks he has the right to tell others how to live !

All critiques of capitalism, when you REALLY examine them, come down to the issue of INEQUALITY. Everything else is just rhetoric and BS.

BOOMS AND BUSTS ARE CAUSED BY CENTRAL PLANNING AND FIAT CURRENCY ! THE TRUE FREE MARKET IS MUCH SMOOTHER THAN OUR CURRENT SYSTEM, AND DOES NOT NEED THE GOVERNMENT TO SAVE IT. DO YOU HAVE COURAGE TO LIVE IN A FREE MARKET ???

"but, oops, there's that unspoken alterior motive of high volume is preferable to efficient trading.." that is of course the problem, which has been stated many different ways over and over again. And if you don't churn like a banshee, then they will either chastise you, make you socially...

the problem with pennies is lack of liquidity at each price point, because there are too many price points. With sub-pennies, it is completely rediculous. Imagine if you went to an auction to buy a vase and the bidding was like this "$100, do I hear $100.001 ?" I have nothing against...