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This looks like good news for holders of both. Their revenues are good, but they're being eaten alive by the billions they're spending on destructive competition/new subscriber recruitment.. Once they scale that back, the positive cashflows should look good to a lot of investors.

One dollar is really too little value now to warrant making and carrying around bulky paper money. Even a few $1 bills will fatten your wallet and make it awkward to carry when combined with your larger-denomination bills, cards, etc. I spent some time in Europe, where there are 1 and 2 Euro...

Hi all, I am pleased to announce that version 0.2 of my Ruby language interface for the Interactive Brokers TWS API is now available from the "Files" section of http://rubyforge.org/projects/ib-ruby/ . IB-Ruby is an open source (LGPL, for you open source geeks), completely free (both free...

Pekelko, sorry, didn't mean to derail your thread into political debate. I suppose it's inevitable, to some extent, with this kind of topic. Back on track with credit risk, the piece I read said BoA is only offering cards to people who have had checking accounts with them for at least 3...

A few points come to mind: 1) The Mexicans who come to the US illegally tend to be hard working and extremely motivated. The lazy ones stayed in Mexico and didn't bother going to all the trouble of entering the US illegally and risking getting shot by some crazy redneck Minutemen rancher who...

Latin America has a lot of oil and gas. In Latin America (with the exception of Venezuela and Bolivia, and then only very, very recently), the energy concessions have been granted to foreign (read: US and European) companies, who funnel all of the value from their energy sales to the US and...

I liked SuperEgo's descriptions of his trading system. Pity he was drowned out by drama (including his own) before he could finish. Did he get set up on Yahoo? I'd like to read the remainder of his series..

Hi, Interesting project. Some other resources you may find helpful: * http://rubyforge.org/projects/ib-ruby/ - a Ruby implementation of the TWS api. Still incomplete and very research-project oriented at this time. * On Linux systems, you can get "true" random numbers rather than...

Buy a $500-1000 beater car, something reliable and fuel efficient like a Honda Civic. Change the oil religiously. Deliver pizzas in an upscale area. No qualifications necessary except a clean driving record and a car, great tips, easy work, and you can listen to music or audiobooks or whatever...

Hi, I am an experienced computer programmer. I'm looking for partners for a trading software project in San Francisco - either individuals or small companies/hedge funds. This partnership can take many forms and the exact situation is still open. I need to find the right people to bounce...

Guys - first of all, great discussion, I'm enjoying this thread and all the replies quite a lot. While doing unrelated research, I incidentally just came across this article, an episode in history that I hadn't heard of before: The Johnson Range Wars...

Maintaining the illusory "free market" as an objective to be pursued is every bit as naive and dangerous as the opposite; that is, maintaining some sort of Communist utopia as an objective. Even in the modern United States, the closest thing this world has ever seen to a "free" market, the...

Rather, players A and B will naturally seek to work together exclude other players C, D, and E from the market altogether, granting A and B in collusion each a much larger share of whatever advantages (of whatever sort - capital, resources, opportunity, etc.) that C, D, and E are denied access...

Hi, I'm looking for a chatroom or IM buddies who are up at night US time trading the Asian markets, particularly the Hang Seng index futures, to bounce ideas off of and share insight with. Anyone know of anything?

Hi all- I am looking for a nontraditional San Francisco finance or trading related job. I'm open to a wide range of possibilities as far as the specific work. (What I mean by "nontraditional" is "not a 9-5 shirt-and-tie job in a cubicle". I'm not knocking jobs like that, but I've been...

The only reason it's still illegal is social inertia. People have been raised to think that "drugs" are bad (which, oddly, does not include caffeine, nicotine, or alcohol) and that only social deviants use "drugs". It's also a convenient political bludgeon so that the guy running for office can...

In a hyperinflation situation, what happens if: 1) Government prints a ton of cash, pays debts; 2) Government issues bonds 3) Government shreds cash received from bond sale. I'm also interested in how this works in situations with less severe inflation, like what China is presumably...

Thanks for the replies. So, a "sterilization" bond is just an ordinary bond in every way except that its purpose is not really to borrow money, but to remove liquidity from a currency? Have any other countries experiencing inflation done this? What was the result? (I'm thinking of the...

The WSJ said Friday: I am unfamiliar with this term. Would someone be so kind as to explain what a sterilization bond is, and how it works to sop up extra currency? Thanks.

panzerman: You have abandoned the realm of legitimate discussion and debate and passed into ad hominem personal insults, so this discussion is over.