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excellent point, AAA exactly what i was referring to . when people LIKE the religious influence on policy, it's ok. when they don't , it's "intolerance' here are some political movements with strong (if not predominant) religious influence anti-slavery women's suffrage civil rights...

spare me the strawmen zzz. i was not comparing his speeches to pat robertson. i responded to specfic statements you made that were demonstrably false and you proceeeded to create strawmen you made specific statements. i made specific responses (that showed you are wrong), and...

"The deeply religious folks who were/are at the forefront of human rights for all, were/are not using the Bible or other religious doctrine to make their arguments....." absolutely false. have you read the speeches and writings of the civil rights movement leaders, abolition, anti-slavery...

"Religion doesn't promote freedom in this world, Judeo/Christian/Islam promotes freedom in the afterlife, and a bunch of social rules that restrict personal freedoms in this life." arguably false. civil rights movement, abolition movement, anti-slavery movement, etc. all spearheaded and...

repub party is scaring fiscal conservatives because george bush is anything but a fiscal conservative i like bush, but he's not even a conservative. he's an authoritarian right-moderate. as a libertarian right moderate myself, i disagree with him on lots of stuff. however, he's just...

john frigging kennedy mentioned god in his inaugural (and in general) more than bush the civil rights movement, and the abolition movement was in effect run by religious people (MLK et al). people don't like it when religious ideas they DON'T like are present in the political debate. left...

every answer you give reeks of condescension, and preachiness. seriously. this is a job interview, but you try to sound like a professor. generally speaking, interviewers don't want to be preached to... just a hint...

volente doesn't understand what wealth creation means much as he doesn't understand what zero sum means. thus, having a discussion with him is pointless it would be like discussing whether what is in Vial X is a solution or a suspension, with a person who doesn't even understand what...

"Wealth is not made, it is merely transferred. " ok. i had thought you were ignorant. now, i know it. if wealth is not made, then where did all the wealth COME FROM? the "wealth fairies"? there was the same amount of wealth 3 thousand years ago as there is today? worldwide...

this thread is the perfect example (reminds me of zerosum thread) of how people post before even understanding what is posted/what they are reading, only see what they want to see, and are so loathe to admit they are wrong lest the axhammer of cognitive dissonance splits their head in two one...

it is not relevant to the fact that equity markets are not zero sum and futures markets are. it is relevant only in proving you don't understand what the term zero sum means. because IF you think it's relevant, you don't understand what zero sum means.

it COMES from the process of capitalism jeez. this is frigging econ 101. actually, it's even simpler look. how much wealth is there in the world today? how much wealth was there in the world 100 yrs ago? is there MORE now? of course. how much wealth is in the US now...

trading is no different from any other business MOST businesses fail - restaurants, delivery services, whatever. why should trading be any different? it isn't thank God for losing traders. they provide liquidity, and their stops and margin calls help fuel nice runs

yer gut is flat out wrong i was screaming for people to buy HANS over and over again. sounds to me like sour grapes. fwiw, i don't trade (generally) stocks. i trade index futures. on an intraday basis. stocks and options are much longer holding periods. rarely intraday trades \

i bot HANS on rock solid fundamentals it has/had a growing segment of a growing industry i questioned a surf team promoter, a BMX show promoter, several pro surfer friends of mine, and a bunch of store managers i also started to see a lot of Monsters being drunk around town and...

"The fair value for Gold might be the low 400's but it could easily over shoot down to 250. " by what valuation metric? im a contrarian too. that's why i started accumulating gold several years ago, before i even knew what stock trading was. but i'd like to know what u use to say the...

it took me a little over a year to get profitable for me, what helped me get profitable was organization and endless scrutiny of past trades it wasn't until i started getting hyper organized and detailed that i started getting profitable

"retail investors?" you mean retail traders most retail investors do fine generally speaking, they dollar cost average into mutual funds, and a few play stocks on the side retail traders are another story entirely. most lose money

XAU trouncing spot metal today. recall what i said about regression to mean gold/metal stox have been lagging the metals spread opp's abound

dividends are nice, but they are not *the* reason why equities are not zero sum even if dividends did not exist - equity market would still not be zero sum. but dividends are a good point, since they are a constant influx of new wealth flowing into the market