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Of course this is the reason for the bailout. It is also why the credit market players are so panicky. They want to keep the foreign cash flows going into the US. They make their money off the skim. They recommend shutting down production in the US which makes overseas players rich. They...

Funny how this is not really a Republican vs. Democrat matter. It is basically the lower 99% vs. the top 1%. http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/1670

The good news is that Hank Paulson knows what he is doing. The bad news is that, again, he knows what he is doing. Brilliant mind, dark heart.

This makes the ES choppier than it should be. A wider tick size than is justified by the market and choppier trading, all so that a small group of floor traders can make a living at the expense of everyone else.

It does not seem like the CME is pushing electronic trading as much anymore. Perhaps they are tied up trying to consolidate the exchanges they have acquired. They should be putting more effort into promoting an electronic contract replacement for AB. I have thought that a high beta index...

Interesting tax case on trader status from WSJ online. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122039907716592937.html?mod=hpp_us_entrepreneur

There is no 180 degree turn. I am saying the same thing in all my posts. You however, are bouncing around like someone who has had one too many expressos.

I do not know where you come up with all this bizarre stuff. I have been very clear in what I am saying and that is that the US needs to get more mercantilist when dealing with mercantilist countries. No more free rides and one-way deals. It may have worked in the past for multinationals who...

Without the big fat trade surplus that China has with the US, they would be shutting the rest of the ASEAN players out of their market with the exception of commodity imports. They are trying to win influence by allowing in some neighborhood trade. But, without the US surplus they would shut the...

It has got nothing to do with - dynamic balances, faster adapting or new paradigms. The US invented all that non-sense and it is just consultant B.S. Read the article that I posted above from Fritz Hollings. It’s about not trying to be Mr. Nice Guy anymore and to start playing hardball...

The problem is not education. The US system does a decent job for a large population and could be improved. Nor is it about the pre-medieval caste system in India that holds people down. I read somewhere that when people go duck hunting in parts of India they use people to retrieve the ducks...

The way the global economy has evolved, the middle and lower classes in the US have seen their median income drop during this decade. As with compound interest, when you lose the compounding of wage growth over a decade it will have a dramatic effect over time. The price of some goods is...

FYI from the NYT. Iogear’s new U.S.B. Laptop K.V.M. Switch ($130) http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/28/technology/personaltech/28cable.html?em

Ross Perot has outsourced more jobs through his company Perot Systems than were lost through NAFTA. No one seems to have called him out on this. He was interviewed on CNBC recently about his predictions and he quickly changed the subject to the national debt. Thats all he wanted to talk about.

Don't forget offshoring and outsourcing which take away a lot of jobs from people in the US.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/12/business/worldbusiness/12indiawall.html?em

Here is a funny article from 2003 talking about how there is going to be a labor shortage in the US by 2010. http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2003/09/01/348381/index.htm

Here is an interesting book on how globalizaton is putting the squeeze on middle class and other jobs. http://www.alternet.org/workplace/87405/

Thanks, I will check them out.

Does anyone know of charting software that allows cumulative as a chart type? I am trying to plot a cumulative advance-decline line. Esignal does not seem to allow this. Thank you.