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Thank you for the link. My mistake.

I had EBAY earnings announcement marked for next week. I see they announced last night. Did any data service carry this schedule ahead of time, or was it a surprise for everyone (well almost everyone as per usual)?

There is zero chance of this happening unless coerced perhaps by regulation. If such a regulation were enacted then are buybacks illegal? In that case, great faith and responsibility is placed in the person or comity that decides additions, deletions and connected insiders will find great...

Look into the Billy Meier case. If you assign a small nonzero probability that it may be true, look into his 251 contact report.

There is circumstantial and controversial "evidence" that two genetic manipulations to increase aggressiveness and shorten the lifespan were carried out in order to create a fighting people i.e us. With so much bs and disinfo floating around we may never know.

A bit of selection bias here. Kinda like polling: are u alive or dead?

Forecasting what the forecasters will forecast.

Capitalism is a great teacher of self responsability through the law of cause and effect. But whatever the system that governs access to life's necessities is, it will have to address a few major unresolved issues. Unless we get some breakthrough in interstellar travel soon to allow colonization...

Martinghoul you are a wise and very knowledgable trader and an expert in sovereing bonds and interest rate products and what you say is true. I would hate arguing with you. In the end living under a philosopher king or philospher banker is only as good as the philosopher.

In the age of full reserve banking, fractional reserve banking was called counterfeiting. In regards to Josiah Stamp it is true that the above quote was allegedly attributed to him.

It has been my experience that even highly educated people express disbelief when confronted with the fact that virtually all money in existence is created by a handful of people out of thin air as debts enforced by legalized violence. For example, Sig is creating straw men arguments, like the...

Very nice work. It looks like the risk premium for skew (based on aversion to catastrophic risk and love of lottery outcomes) is not worth putting in as an alpha factor. I was wondering how hard it would be to modify your test a bit to look at the predictive value of the recent realized skew vs...

I sometimes wonder what the world would look like if reincarnation were scientifically proven. Instant empathy. Few mighty ones would want to come back on the planet on the receiving end of their machinations.

First thing is to wake up which you did. Next is to gather wisdom which you are. Understanding will come when enough wisdom has been acquired. Choices matter.

S2007S you keep making the same post and depending on the flavor of the day it is about BOE, BOJ, ECB, FED, BOC... You are onto something but what is it? Every generation or so it seems the control and permission system gets a makeover. It may very well be that crying for higher rates nowadays...

Interesting point of view of the mouse in the maze that is looking for ways to get the largest piece of cheese. It answers none of the questions I find interesting. Who is running the show and for what purpose in this company, industry, continent, planet, solar system, galaxy, universe? I have a...

Organize into well thought out tables a usefull subset of the SEC EDGAR filings and timely deliver them in flat files via ftp. Similar services I found in the past ended up being bought out by Thomson or Reuters and priced out of the little guy's budget.

I tried some brain surgery on my cat the other day but it did not make it. Do you have any tips for brain surgery?

I just did a similar study with the data I have. I created an "index" made of top 100 liquid companies listed on NYSE and NASDAQ. The index is refreshed every month. It is survivor bias free as I have data for all delisted companies. I printed every day the total share volume in millions of...

On the other hand, the vertical axis in his graph is labeled millions of shares traded. It would be nice to get a confirmation of what total yearly volume on all venues for sp500 companies was. Also a lot of trading moved to ETFs. Hard to draw conclusions.