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How many threads do you need to post this worthless garbage on?

That is not the whole definition, only a fraction of it. For instance banks also accept money from investors without any production or sales. So quote a whole definition if you want to argue.

Big-nose people make a lot of trouble: <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/mHRqe9L56t4&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed...

You mean it isn't?? /ducks :D

Can I buy a car with those IOUs?

Copy-pasting from another thread on ET: Section 101(a) of the bill provides: (a) AUTHORITY.—The Secretary is authorized to establish the Troubled Asset Relief Program (or ‘‘TARP’’) to purchase, and to make and fund commitments to purchase, troubled assets from any financial...

Migh have a problem if that financial vortex turns out to be a cat. 5 hurricane going right over your beachfront house though. Do you think Icelanders are undisturbed right now?

I think there are some key differences between a Ponzi and Social Security that makes the two not quite the same thing. The key treat of a Ponzi scheme is that it always pays a return which is in part or whole coming from later investors (rather than a profit-making activity). From this one...

This definition was crafted so that it covers ANY institution doing business in the US, while giving the impression that it is restricted to the financials. This is how I read it: The term ‘‘financial institution’’ means any institution, including [irrelevant examples], established...

This is garbage. Huge stop-losses (even if temporary) produce a slow growth of your account until one day the price tanks and doesn't come back up, you're forced to exit at your crazy low limit (margin call if nothing else) and you lose everything in one shot. It could take a week, a month, a...

What broker are you using? I haven't seen it myself, but you can easily exploit it: if you want to sell hover your mouse over the BUY button for a while, and when the price moves up quickly hit SELL!

Require all bonusses or severance pays made exclusively of stock options that can only be sold after 5 years (1 third), 10 years (1 third) and 15 years (1 third).

Another spin on the foreign banks issue: China & Saudi Arabia demanding their bad investments be bought back or else? Quite chilling if true... <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/4lxwiAjDHok&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen"...