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    We need more regulation: Reinstate Glass-Steagall Act

    CONGRESS PASSES WIDE-RANGING BILL EASING BANK LAWS By STEPHEN LABATON Published: November 5, 1999 http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C03E2DB1F3BF936A35752C1A96F958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all Congress approved landmark legislation today that opens the door for a new era on...
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    We need more regulation: Reinstate Glass-Steagall Act

    Bailout is proof that history can repeat its failures SEPTEMBER 26, 2008 http://www.news-leader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080926/OPINIONS02/809260309/1006/OPINIONS In December 1930, the Bank of the United States, a then-large New York mega-commercial /investment bank, failed. A...
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    Free market ideology- socialism for the rich, capitalism for everybody else

    "I have great, great confidence in our capital markets and in our financial institutions. Our financial institutions, banks and investment banks, are strong. Our capital markets are resilient. They're efficient. They're flexible." -- Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, March 16, 2008 "Our...
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    Free market ideology- socialism for the rich, capitalism for everybody else

    Financial Weapons of Mass Destruction By Sean Gonsalves, AlterNet. Posted September 22, 2008. http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/99812/financial_weapons_of_mass_destruction/ First, the U.S. Treasury nationalized Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which holds over $5 trillion in combined...
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    breaking news-bailout plan falls apart !

    It wasn't the constituents you idiot. The banks had to write off huge losses because they were involved in the casino game on derivatives. We need to ban derivatives gambling, that's all. (google Glass-Steagall Act)
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    700 Billion for what?

    we need to stop this bailout
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    Stocks Basically Flat After MASSIVE GOV’T TAKEOVER OF EVERYTHING

    Who's the SOCIALIST now? http://wonkette.com/402901/stocks-basically-flat-after-massive-govt-takeover-of-everything Stocks Basically Flat After MASSIVE GOV’T TAKEOVER OF EVERYTHING Well, that was a fun week in finance news. So what did the markets get, after the U.S. government...
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    Biden calls paying higher taxes a patriotic act Is this a joke?

    "The people who benefit the most from a capitalist country should pay the most in taxes. Very few of the rich serve in the military, it's the middle class and poor who defend and and die serving our country"
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    $5k e-mini journal

    I blew up;;; I could feel it coming, but I thought I had it under control. I didn`t even trade my strategy. Down $1400 on the day -taking remaining $2400 and getting out for good. thanks for playing and good luck
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    Okay. I was skeptical. Chevy Volt is a 'Killer App.'

    Raise taxes and start some major infrastructure programs, electricity grid, roads, bridges. This will create a lot of jobs and opportunities. (edit: Throw out the warmongers and restore some semblance of sanity to our foreign and domestic policies.)
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    A video describing how you feel trading this psychosis?

    Who Replaces AIG in the Dow? How about the Fed? <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Nm9_thmh-Kg&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Nm9_thmh-Kg&hl=en&fs=1"...
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    Capital and profits are kept private, but losses and risk are shifted to the public.

    The uber rich protect their assets with taxpayer money while the taxpayers are strangled at the pump, are pushed out of their homes, all the while the value of the dollar falls further and faster. http://www.oftwominds.com/blogsept07/bailouts.html "A corollary policy of this utterly...
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    LIFE IN THE 1500's

    I'm sick and tired of this Republican garbage. ;>)
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    Why don't the top 5% spend more and lift the economy?

    So, which one did you buy?
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    Why don't the top 5% spend more and lift the economy?

    I don't think so. Look at the bullshit they're buying: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=131728 That's how you contribute to the economy? By buying dirt cheap chinese bullshit? http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=113113&perpage=6&pagenumber=1
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    $5k e-mini journal

    Quote from boid-dog: < Among other things i see you fading markt when you've been going long (wait till it breaks support and wait for pullback). > Yeah, I'm working on it. I definitely don't want to fight the market. < When you have a bottom and then return to that price try to...
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    $5k e-mini journal

    Day 10 results: +$156 on 8 YM contracts Not a good day. I took a bunch off half-assed trades that are totally unrelated to my system. I'm shutting down and getting out of the house.
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    Why don't the top 5% spend more and lift the economy?

    Exactly. So the only way is to tax the fat directly.
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    This is America. We Don’t Do Anything Until Something Reaches a Crisis

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    Ron Paul

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