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Yeah, that was Obama - sorry you probably got suckered in by his "hope" and "change" without realizing he was one more establishment hack. Hope you are a little more savvy in your trading phenom - but I'll bet not.

Ahh - good to see this thread pop back up after a year. It was interesting to see the discussion on ethics among traders - who I feel are usually more ethical than the average person. I never did post before so but here are my 2 cents. I consider myself pretty ethical - try to be...

I have no idea why some of these degenerates who will never be rich are supporting policies that benefit the rich at their expense. [/B] Ummm... an aversion to theft or general sense of ethics? Oh sorry, please lets get back to the wealth envy tirade - the OP is hilarious : ) Really...

I understand that computer trading could have easily caused today's crash of 10% but someone please tell me what caused such a RAPID recovery? All I can think is massive intervention. I can't see any competing trading algorithms all turning over to buy so suddenly to drive things right back...

The sad fact of the matter is that a banking cartel pretty much controls our government. They siphon off a couple trillion dollars in wealth every year by counterfeiting that much money and then lending it to the rest of us peasants. Even if we don't take their loans, our savings are diluted...

Can you do it? Only if you have no job and no traceable assets. By the way, if you have no job you also may not get many new credit cards since the banks are finally beginning to check this kind of thing. It is basically the same situation as the real estate bubble. The liar loans (people...

I've never seen and rarely heard of an area where the situation was so bad that enough (real) money could not get you transportation out. That is even if a person was oblivious enough to sit around while things deteriorated. I agree guns are valuable in a near anarchy situation - almost as...

So now the private banking cartel which owns and runs the Fed is going to be allowed to "regulate" America's biggest companies. Hell, why not just let them print their own money? Oh, I forgot, they already do.

The market lately has had trouble delivering quantities like that even with the large spreads you see now from most coin dealers. Just look in the yellow pages for the biggest coin dealer in your city. If you are buying online, check out Tulving or ASI - they tend to have better availability and...

Great post Pascal, you've really got a broad knowledge of macroeconomics. I also tend to agree with Martin though, that most things are not quite so conscious and many factors create collective decisions. I'll throw in another take on China. I think many in the government there were aware...

I constantly hear this from the armchair theorists. Check out this vid for a real life view http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ubJp6rmUYM Even in a total anarchy situation, gold is still arguably the most useful commodity - because gold can get you out of there when nothing else can. I'll take...

You assume that Keynesian economics has failed historically simply because it damages the economy and the middle class. Actually Keynesian economics succeeds very well in the purpose for which it is used - to transfer wealth to the banking industry. As for the question of "when will we know...

Of course the answer varies depending on the individual's skills and desires. If it were me, at this time in the market, I'd spend a year buying, renovating, and renting out foreclosure(s). Then I'd take the rental money and travel the world for as long as I wanted on a LOW budget and have a...

a run like this shows up first in the bullion coins - give it a little time and if nothing changes those prices and shortages will have to bleed through into the larger bullion bars. of course investment purchases are just one part of the silver market, and the govt is doing a good job of trying...

Interesting topic and I'm sure that long term it is a great trade - just depends on how long you can wait for it to pay out. Who knows when the auto industry will start to recover - until that happens there is no guarantee the ratio will return to normal. It might be helpful to look at the ratio...

what's happening in the silver market is not just an ordinary markup to small buyers. there is basically no physical metal available for the first time since the 70s perhaps. even the us mint has apparently stopped making bullion coins. IMO this could be the first signal of a groundswell away...

I think most people who belive in a free market (and freedom in general) agree that people and institutions have to pay the price for their actions. Unfortunately that is now how most govt works. Instead the public is manipulated into "solving" ever growing problems with ever greater loss of...

what people don't seem to understand - and it is scary considering that some trade commodities - is that it only takes a small pullback in demand to cause a huge pullback in price. Let me simplify it for you. You have a room with 10 people and everyone eats one pound of corn per day. If you only...

I took delivery of a platinum contract a few years ago. I used Lind Waldock although technically any brokerage can do it. A larger broker will have gone through the process many times and it may be a little easier. If I remeber right the buy/sell slippage is around 2% after all costs - which...

Amazing how convoluted reasoning can make people lose sight of simple realities. Look at the big picture - this problem occurred because our economy is due for a downturn because of an enormous balance of trade deficit in conjunction with growing public and private debt. A huge overhang of...