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I remember one of OBL's first post-9/11 tapes had some rock in it and geologists claimed to be able to id the exact region of Afgh. where it came from. Assuming OBL has at least some paranoid/common sense, I'm sure he has been spooked into releasing images that are months old and probably shot...

ahh Candle, A model for ET fascists as always. :D

Ok, I'm game, but I'm sure I'm not the only one rusty on their Rand- I read her like 15 years ago.... So what would a more rational objectivist society look like? How would it handle 2 of the situations mentioned above; the decision whether to undertake a potentially bankrupting...

All of you great fans of objectivism would hate your proposed world- even just for selfish reasons. The US does not have the pathetic, leaky safety net that it has for any love of the poor. With even less social programs, the unpaved streets would be filled with even more beggars, thieves...

Very funny Nitro

No, but I doubt he would have been elected and supported with out the economic mess. It was not a normal situation.

Not to get too off topic, but there is a strong case to be made that fascism would not have developed without the particular economic nightmares of the 1930's in Germany. And yes, WW2 started in the late 30s.

Agree. I would only go as far as the survival aspect. The rest of trading needs other metaphors.

Lets not be too literal here. Its a metaphor and one that works if you realize that just beyond any harmonious trading you may be relishing is a land mine (internal or external) that can kill or cripple your trading capital. War and trading both require supreme focus on survival first...

Without a doubt he has better insight. Bush, Powell Cheney and Rumsfeld will look even dumber than LB Johnson and MacNamara (sp?) in the light of history.

Thanks for a great read bung. Here are some key exerts: " ....If I have a main message, it's that I'm from inside the military system, and now I am from inside the political left, and I want to build a bridge between the left and the military. Not militarism, but the people in the...

Bung is right. Bush is presiding over something that more closely resembles the fascism of the 1930's. We have a growing police state, a hollowing and increasingly cruel economy as well as a fascination with elusive enemies who we perpetuate through illegal, chronic, and bankrupting wars...

Nitro, I attended a TOS seminar-not tradesecrets- the one I went to was free at the cboe. They taught high probability spread trading that is not directional in the sense that they are profitable if the market stays within a normal range- which TOS claims it does 60+% of the time. I'm...

Though this was last year, it was one of the better journals I have read here; not so much b/c of the results but it shows how a journal can be useful.http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=6140 For watching a successful index trader, check out the ET chat during the day...

If you do the crime.... its party time on the tax payers dime If there were only justice.....

No

Fallacies, geez. France is not a socialist nation. France is one of the oldest capitalist imperial powers. You are confusing having a social safety net (health care retirement etc) with socialism. The US has raw capitalism in comparison to Europe. Much more poverty and way more folks in prison...

Chicago has 3 million people....vs Frances 50 mil. 3 goes into 50...... The whole US does not ever have one weather silly people.

No, not unheard of. Even here is Bush's paradise. Many hundreds died a few years ago in Chicago during a heat wave. That rate over a country the size of France would be similar.

Right. Buy and sell whenever you like. Cash settled with no early exercise.