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    Backtesting individual stocks

    Well "Now" is highly dependent on what other stocks are doing at the same time... IBM EMC JNPR etc.. will behave in a group manner.. so you'd want to look for highly correlated activity and follow that momentum.
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    What's Wrong with Canada?

    The NDP will probably have the budget written on recycled paper. That will be their contribution for the year.
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    Buying Gold to hedge against US debt.

    I suppose you can call the IRS and ask if you're taxes can be paid back in gold.
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    Why a Greek Default Would be Worse Than Lehman Brothers' Collapse

    Why do people conjure up thoughts like this and waste readers time. Greece is just another symptomatic part of the global banking system that gorges on credit and then at the end of the meal gets bailed out in a spectacular fashion for 100 cents on the dollar. Somehow this is all supposed to...
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    The UK is concerned about banks like JP Morgan that warehouse commodities

    I have a solution - make them play rock, paper, scissors
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    Derek's Everest Capital firm went bust

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJl0XuDKSjc
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    Engineer looking to make a career change into trading (PART II)

    Proof that profitable trading is elusive and weird for most people: http://www.michaelcovel.com/2011/05/22/what-motivates-us-dan-pink-on-the-surprising-science-of-motivation/
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    Nearly Half of Americans Are ‘Financially Fragile’ - Real Time Economics - WSJ

    At least Greeks know how to farm, entertain and cook...
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    Wall Street Art...

    Ya if you think of this as a business, host it on a viable blog software environment like squarespace. I get warnings about some kind of javascript type virus thing going on....
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    Russell Napier Lecture

    I just ordered his book... seems one of the few people who get it.. Have you read Richard Duncan as well?, CLSA is the publisher of both of these guys books... very interesting take on the global economy.
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    Wall Street Art...

    I hope you are doing one of DSK
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    To those that say trading is a 0 sum game...

    exactly! Contingent Events (wars, scams, crashes) can destroy Markets, without anyone there to appear as a "counterparty". Anyone with either an understanding of events, or liquidity concerns would immediately acknowledge this.
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    500K in college loan debt, earning 80K a year!!!!

    My has a full scholarship and no debt as a foreign student. She couldn't get a $500 visa card, not sure where this woman got her money.
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    Director Of IMF Arrested For Alleged Sexual Assault

    IMF- I guess the new acryonym is International Maid F%cker
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    Russell Napier Lecture

    I saw his interview in FT yesterday - http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2011/05/17/video-in-doomsday-scenario-buy-em-currencies/ - Thanks this should be interesting.
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    Serious Serious Question!

    This doesn't answer your question directly - But - If productivity reaches a plateau, going into a range of "stability" and the continued debasement of labor and the capacity for private and public debt slows down to a crawl... do you think that would strengthen or weaken a currency? I'd...
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    bill gross and interest rate control by Fed

    Well they could just make all the newly issued bonds callable. Add enough volatility and this would force down bond prices temporarily... I.E existing bonds would go up in value, while the new ones would lose value. Kind of a messy, ugly way to do it and it would blow up a lot of Bond arbitrageurs.
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    Director Of IMF Arrested For Alleged Sexual Assault

    I'm sure it was just an asset swap.
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    Bernanke’s QE2 Averts Deflation, Spurs Rally, Credit

    Warren Mosler is saying QEII is deflationary for a variety of reasons - http://insider.thomsonreuters.com/link.html?cn=share&ctype=group_channel&chid=3&cid=218200&shareToken=Mzo4MjFkYmYyNi0wYTY0LTQzMzctODhmZS1iM2MzZGZkNTNkYWU%3D&start=0&end=450&cn=uid13761...
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