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I would hate to influence the artist in the process of creation... but "Funeral: How Many PIIGS Will Survive?" sounds much better for a sensationalist post than "Funeral: How Many PIIGS Will Default?" "Funeral" kind of implies someone has to die. Default is not exactly "death".

Haha, NO! Wording is good. Just out of 2 near identical threads this one has more posts. So, I would naturally assume the thread with fewer posts was a duplicate... even though I appreciate the wording of the poll is much better in the other thread. (Perhaps you could add "default in 3 years"...

12 hours ago I found the linked document just useful info... nothing criminal in it... till some big shot at Interactive Brokers proved me wrong by ordering to take it down. I saved a copy of the linked Web-page and after skimming through it I don't see any reference to quotes provided by Timber...

I thought the other thread was a duplicate. Anyway, I am not posting another goat.

Epic picture. I wish double "I" didn't obstruct the swine.

As a rule, the industry welcomes new qualification requirements. If the rules from the regulator set sufficient qualification criteria, the financial services companies are happy they are given the definitive measure of sufficient qualification and they don't have to check credit scores, run...

It's as if you keep reading Brave New World. Luckily, this market is not commoditised... or large financial institutions would have crowded it for sure. The latest data suggests they still prefer smart educated hardworking people.

Ed Balls is being hypocritical in his rhetorics. A couple of years ago as a member of the cabinet he defended the VAT rise by Labour prime minister Gordon Brown. Now the same Ed Balls blames the coalition government for not reverting the tax to pre-Gordon Brown levels.

Funny enough you mention that. Shelf oil production in the UK is decreasing primarily due to punishing taxes. As the price of oil increases BP keeps closing shelf platforms. It has nothing to do with the oil running out - just profit versus taxes.

When you mention socialism, you have no idea what you are talking about. Socialism is the regime in late USSR and a few formerly allied countries. The key feature of socialism was 99% employment. A person who decided to "retire" before the official retirement age would receive a visit from the...

TVs don't come in resolution higher than 1920x1080 (which is a resolution of a typical 23-inch monitor). So, if your set-up can drive such a monitor and has a digital video out (such as DVI-D or HDMI), it can drive a TV. For text editing and charting (unless you are running tick charts) most any...

The buzz is slowly making its way into mainstream media. The front page on google news features: Why Groupon Is Poised For Collapse

Good post! I should just add that accumulating debt on a credit card is very bad for your finances. Given the high interest rate credit card companies charge, it's much wiser to take on a personal loan or use overdraft, if the bank gives one. On a different note, if one always pays credit...

Was it a job in banking? Banking, accounting and law are areas where "bad credit" has relevance. If a person can't manage his or her personal financial affairs, how can he or she be trusted to manage someone elses? Declaring oneself bankrupt pretty much closes the door into any of these...

"The mystery is a growing embarrassment to the Pentagon, and an irritant to Washington's relations with Baghdad. Iraqi officials are threatening to go to court to reclaim the money, which came from Iraqi oil sales, seized Iraqi assets and surplus funds from the United Nations' oil-for-food...

link to the story on yahoo: http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110613/us_yblog_thelookout/more-than-6-billion-in-iraq-reconstruction-funds-lost Original story in L.A. Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-missing-billions-20110613,0,4414060.story

Have you paid anything to the credit card company since the start of the thread?

I understand you can easily backup bitcoins by encryting and saving elsewhere file wallet.dat. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Securing_your_wallet

In way, Bitcoins is the ultimate in people assigning value to otherwise worthless junk. Something has value as along as there is enough people prepared to pay for it. From this prospective Bitcoins are not very different from over-hyped internet stocks or certain mortgage derivatives. So...