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What is missing in both parties is intellectual integrity. Yes AAA this absolutely stinks. Just because Obama supporters may be happy with what he is doing in one area is no reason not to expect more than this from a President. The same can be said about Republican's and their blind support for...

Thanks, and I agree. If we are serious about reducing the cost of health care in this country we need to recognize that at best only 60% of health care dollars go toward treating patients in one form or another and that does not take in to account the wasted $ spent on defensive medicine and...

Bit of an over generalization there given how few are involved in this type of research. There are many in medicine, the vast majority I would say, who are for a crack down on this type of influence by the big money pharmas and who have voluntarily shut down access despite losing out on perks...

Home prices in the UK are starting to go back up again which is something that I have a hard time comprehending but it is happening. http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20090617-716641.html

$sox is suggesting further upside ahead, of course this is options exp week so everything is suspect. News was pretty terrible 1st half of week and market didn't manage much of a sell off despite plenty of help from the call writers.

This is nothing new, anyone who has lived in this country for any amount of time knows how naive and uninformed the average person is, especially when it comes to current affairs. What is surprising is that the GOP decided to field such inarticulate candidates who couldn't get out of their own...

Stay away from Planar brand, had 6 and every single one died between 13-16 months. Currently running 6 viewsonics from costco and all are doing fine, though only 8 months old.

Nice, thanks. Here are a couple of my favorites: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBW5a77wINQ&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0aeutiyv-0

Great idea. I use this for opera but I still have to put in the location. http://operabase.com/oplist.cgi?lang=en&ask=t

Get a Phd (if you don't have one already) Join a PE group or become a mostly passive investor in a business (maybe one that gives you an edge in commodities, I know a trader who is setting up a Palm oil refinery for just that reason). Bridge/Backgammon/Mah Jong.

Would your results the past few weeks have been appreciably different if you never added to losing trades? My guess is dramatically so. Good luck.

They say they were Federal Reserve bonds? As far as I know the Fed doesn't issue such things though they recently were going to ask for the authority to do so. Maybe they jumped the gun :) or these are fake. Then again, if anyone wants to cover this up the public will simply be told that they...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123739788518173569.html Edit: It appears that based on public info you are correct, only 650B has been acknowledged as having been spent as of the middle of April. My guess would be that they have spent more since then, nevertheless I think the point still...

Is anyone else getting the feeling that this whole green shoots rally has been about letting the banks and the smart connected money get out before we head to the real bottom. http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/06/american-trucking-association-tonnage-index/...

You could be right but still seems high, look at the spread between 1 and 3 month treasuries compared to 1 and 3 month LIBOR.

Looks like GM may become the US equivalent of airbus.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=atDUfrifHZ34 Libor peaked in October when the one-month rate reached 4.59 percent and the three-month rate climbed to 4.82 percent. The spread widened to a record 1.02 percentage points in December. While both rates plunged this year, the...

Nice of the Fed to confirm that they indeed need auditing. This is like Madoff hiring someone to stop the SEC from looking in to his books.

Command economies face the problem of their institutions of higher learning being dominated by political party hacks who religiously tow the party lines and crush independent thought. Soros's Civic Education Project was all about remedying this. He sent western ABD's and prof.s over to Eastern...

It isn't anything that I can relate to but as completely stupid wastes of money go these days this is relatively benign. If the fed can waste $1.8 trillion bringing rates down 1% for a couple of months so an approx. 60K households can refinance, this is cheap by comparison and the results are...