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I agree the new version is totally insane. Why does Microsoft expect us to read pictures now instead of words like they had before? Is Microsoft or their users becoming illiterate? Did I waste years in school learning how to read? Before I switch to Office 2007 or IE 7 I'll look at alternatives...

Mish's and Peter's knowledge and opinions of the economy are almost identical. Peter is a much better salesman and Mish's actual results for his clients are superior. If the two could see past their differences they would be best off to figure out a way that they could merge their companies.

Will you take Quebec in trade from Canada? Do we have to take Palin? Can't you just send her to Iceland? She probably wouldn't realize the difference and she couldn't make it much worse there than it is already.

Scrap all personal and corporate income taxes and replace them with a consumption sales tax. This would encourage people to save or invest their money rather than spend a lot of it on imported junk that returns nothing to the economy. If there was any government spending to revive the...

Immigrants typically are ambitious people, they had enough ambition to leave their country for better opportunities elsewhere. Ambitious people tend to be savers or investors so they can get ahead. A saver should be more valuable to America as opposed to a consumer. Someone who consumes more...

A few years ago I subscribed to a couple of newspapers at a cost of over $400 a year. It was a nuisance whenever the morning paper was late or didn't show up. I was constantly dealing with piles of paper that I had to put out for recycling. Finally I got a laptop with a wireless connection and...

True, but the United States didn't go into the last depression with such huge debts. Also, the United States was still on the gold standard at that time.

Gold is the last refuge for the world's money. The price is likely being suppressed right now to preserve the false value of the American dollar but they can't do that forever. In the depression of 1929 gold was the only thing that increased in value.

There's an excel sheet that comes with the API from Interactive Brokers. You can modify the sheet to suit your requirements. Download the API first from here: http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/p.php?f=programInterface&ib_entity=llc Once you install the API, there'll be a file called...

With all respect to your patriotism: If China is a currency manipulator then what is the United States? Since the US dollar is used as a reserve currency around most of the world, the US is basically getting an interest free loan from the rest of the world. I'd say you could call that a form...

If everyone was as skilled as you would hope, who would take the losing side of every trade?

My belief is that whenever you go long using leveraged futures, you're always at a large risk. Say for instance you go long 10 ES Emini contracts, you're controlling half a million dollars. If another terrorist attack or something comparable happens, the markets could close all of a sudden with...

Yes, it's too bad that Canadian television is not as interesting so that we don't watch 8 hours of TV a day like the average American does: http://www.smartbrief.com/news/ustelecom/storyDetails.jsp?issueid=E0F01B2C-119E-4A8F-B488-C0A9F2F080E0&copyid=C7F9F430-EAC1-4EF1-8FEF-68BBA016E36C&lmcid=...

I'm so sorry if you're referring to any of my comments. I only intended to have an interesting and educational discussion, not to offend any Americans, Canadians or other nationalities. As a matter of fact, a lot of my opinions come from an American who I believe knows more about the economy...

As I wrote previously, I believe the biggest cause of computer eyestrain is having your vision focused too close for too long. If I wear my regular glasses (prescription -3.0) for myopia at the computer, my eyes are strained in less than an hour. If I wear a weaker myopic (-1.5) prescription, I...

Was it Canadian H1B's that produced Vista? If that's the case, I'd like to take back my request for America to send them back here to Canada. Maybe we could send them to work on the computers close to the frontlines in Iraq or Afghanistan.

Yes, that's true, the American's have been pulling the rest of the world down. They have been a drag on the rest of the world's economy by consuming so much and producing so little. The rest of the world will realize that they have been wasting all their time and resources making things for the...

Yes, I agree. You could certainly say that in comparison right now, America's economy is no joke. The United States is in a very serious financial situation right now that is likely to lead to an economic collapse.

Good idea, send us back all the Canadians that Microsoft took right from our universities. I've heard that Bill Gates has gone himself to the University of Waterloo in Canada looking for graduates. Our tax dollars in Canada subsidized the education of all these workers. I've heard that in...

The natural thing for your eyes to do is to focus at a distance. They were only meant to focus close up for short periods of time. If you think of it, that makes sense. Evolution set us up to constantly look in the distance for predators and prey. My eyes are myopic requiring a -3.0...