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When people use the term "activism", it is normally being used pejoratively about people or organizations concerned about the environment, corporatism and other abuse or social rights defence... But what on earth should we call people like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Horowitz and his...

Individuals, groups and society get polarized - some take sides, others go for insight - yet others are easily swayed and amassed. When you start committing to some knowledge - then your instincts are to keep building on that knowledge, connect the dots and flesh it out - so that the knowledge...

Ialwayslear, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koan Why do Warren Buffet and Bill Gates give almost all their money away to good deeds? What use do you have for billions when you are living your last few years, or what use is power over others then? When you understand that - you understand...

According to Japanese PM Taro Aso - it will take some time for measures to take effect. I think it's unlikely the BoJ will act alone, and now Gernot Nerb (head of IFO industry research department) say that the lower Euro is good for exporters ... oh, well.

I did some EURUSD and EURJPY trades during the night - but it was a mixed bag... and I gave back and then some at the European open, so with -112pips for the day so far. I even did some short scalps which went well, but that was before it really started tanking. The only bad thing was the short...

Any negative news from Russia, new EU members or 3Q numbers - drives down the Euro still, with the delevering, repatriation and global financial tug-of-war. This rationalization is probably why anyone are wary of putting money behind the support, just sticking to rhetoric - and saying "it will...

No money backing the talk yet, so the big fast moves to the downside are catching early birds - better have really wide stops and little leverage, or you better wait until it blows off the handles. Difficult Yen trading right now.

Outsourcing is nothing... Offshoring - that's over the border. :D

Greg, whatever "system" you use - will be biased in some way - and then you are creating expectations, trust, information into this system. What you need to be keenly aware is that this is a simple and flat view of the complex that is the market - i.e reality of this interlinked complex...

oktiri, Anderson Cooper on his CNN AC360 show repeatedly refers to William Kristol as a "leading conservative." That is truly a false flag representation of the founder of PNAC - Project for New American Century and also being son of the founder of neo-conservatism. These are the guys who...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Nightmares http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2798679275960015727 Who are the enemies of Europe? Who are the enemies of Japan? Who are the enemies of Brazil? Who are the enemies of the US? Who say they are "enemies", what keeps them...

Propaganda wars are now raging... Europe reports China support for tougher financial regulation calls from Europe, Chinese news reports good collaboration talks and support for common policies... CNN on the other hand - reports "chills between Europe and China" over the human rights award...

CNN is being swamped with neo-conservatives nowadays... What - is there a neo-campaign going on or something? Just now, Wolf Blitzer added a "new member to the 'best political team on television'" - Stephen J. Hayes from the neo-conservative rag The Weekly Standard. Larry King also...

Had a few hours sleep but watched the last hour of the markets, although I did no more trades. Yen eased a little, and there was no big drop on equities or USDJPY -- whatever the reason for this. Capitulation has not come to US markets yet, and maybe it will be more stepwise. Good news if the...

Emerging markets are producing their way into the world economy... it's not like the US controls them. :) Emerging markets now have over half of the world economy - and that is set to grow stronger according to consensus. Democratic processes are becoming stronger and stronger in emerging...

I think most countries and populations have a very conflicted relationship to the US. The realisation is there that they need to to business in USD and that the US is an important part of the global economy - but everyone can see how this is changing - and how the troubled US economy is...

I think you are the dumbass - narrowly brained to think anyone from Brazil is the same user. :p

An interesting roundtable discussion yesterday on the BBC about the role of the USD: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7684397.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/programmes/analysis/transcripts/23_10_08.txt http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSPEK4365020080917?sp=true...

15:58 CET there she blows... :) I think it will be volatile - just piercing that EURUSD 1.27 level and making headroom - but it is likely to end above 1.27 for the weekend - maybe even into 1.30 if there is more talk and backing up of the talk.

Now, the BoJ talk is beginning to get thicker and the knee-jerk motion for the Dow Jones at the open was attributed to official "help" for holding off the Yen... I don't know about that though - but it's not a transparent market - so we traders are mostly in the dark. Only a select few know...