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    Discount Stock Broker

    So you're shopping for a broker that will assume part/all of the currency risk for you? Keep us posted how it'll go.
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    Little Iceland kicks UK in the face

    I assume you are as happy to learn something new as I am to teach it... Next class' topic will be "Botany of ET - recognizing the difference between the genus Impatiens and the genus Mimosa" :p If you'll pass you can take an advanced topic like "How Angiospermae develop sanguinary attributes"...
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    Little Iceland kicks UK in the face

    You guys would fail miserably as spammers: failing to circumvent a simple filter... :D Let's run a trial: 1/ www.dail*****.co.uk (the original text -> will come out garbled) 2/ www.doilymoil.co.uk (replace "o" with "a") 3/ www.deilymeil.co.uk (replace "e" with "a" -> more idiotproof...
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    What is this?

    The fallacy here is to strictly correlate equity indexes with (economic) real output. To translate, equity indexes can and probably* will continue to rise, since the game plan of the Fed being to manufacture a significant rise in those equities to exhort true cash to enter the marketplace...
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    Americans just can't add.

    Those MOFO Germans, didn't show a foreign intern how to run a steel plant! Shocking!
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    How is Interactive Brokers Cheaper?

    If you don't know whether your order was executed or not, how are you going to hedge that? By sending a wise, yet nondescript order to your other broker?
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    Calculating the real value to society of different professions

    An extreme proviso; yet to be seen in the real world. Don't confuse 'protecting the USA' with 'protecting US interests'. Don't confuse 'brainwashed drivel ' with 'sound thinking' either.
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    Goldman to move 1000 UK jobs to Spain - angry over bonus surcharge ?

    LOL. The tempest in a cup. They're just trying to negotiate a part of their taxes away, by whining. I would be interested though where the $3.2bn comes from. If this is GS we're talking about, it's safe to say that it is mostly trading charges, ie. stamp duty. No relocation would lower that...
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    A mystery to me how IB calculates commission for options

    Please don't send him away, I for one quite enjoy his tireless MM-hunt, I say jokes shouldn't be restricted to the jokes thread any more! :D you say SMART, but after sending it out it says CBOE, priceless! :D
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    Ireland, Greece May Leave Euro

    Might I add the total lack of sound economic thinking? BTW why are the 'visionaries' who see the euro collapsing always Americans? :D
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    Ever had trouble getting your money out?

    Refco was registered. Madoff too. Most bucketshops are registered. Some chop shops too.
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    Jokes 2

    98% of Americans say "OH SHIT" before going in the ditch on a slippery road. The other 2% are from Buffalo or Rochester, NY and they say, "Hold my beer and WATCH THIS!"
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    Jokes 2

    Little old lady at US immigration. OFFICIAL: Do you advocate the overthrow of the government by violence or subversion? (Pause for thought) LITTLE OLD LADY: Violence, I think.
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    Jokes 2

    Italian guy says - Whaen i finish a making love to a-my girlfriend, i go down and tickle the back of her knees, she floats six inches above a-da bed in ecstacy. French guy says - Zat is nothing, when i finish with ze girl, ah kiss her all the way down her body and zen lick the soles of her...
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    Jokes 2

    I, as an American have had it with people calling the USA the country of idiots! In my opinion Europe is the country of idiots!
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    Jokes 2

    golf, dictionary... here you go: This businessman travels to Japan to find new markets. He feels alone at his hotel room, so he calls a call-girl for the night. During the events the Japanese girl exclaims 'machigau ana!, machigau ana!' The guy doesn't know Japanese, and he is definitely not...
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    Jokes 2

    A new Miley Cyrus DVD: $20 A tube of Vaselin: $4 A big box of Cleanex: $1.50 The look at the cashier's face when I check out: priceless.
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    Greece, Now Spain

    Global financial/transaction tax on every human being, except bankers and politicians, to bail them out. Oh, wait...
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    Indicator are Liars! S/R Trading for Forex (cont. of futures thread)

    Not sure whether you're trying to sell CDs or ice cream?
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