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My question is, why did the Elizabeth Smart case get so much media attention?? After all, children unfortunately go missing in this country every day. Well, let's see. First off, it helps (ALOT!!) that Elizabeth is a pretty, young blonde caucasian girl. And that's she from a well to do family...

"Hip hop", the gangster rap culture, ghetto fabulous,.....there are alot of words to describe this kind of culture. How exactly has it gained so much popularity in 10 years? Going from virtually zero to a multi billion dollar industry. If you go by the US census, around 13% of people are...

Consumerism has gone into it's own "speculative bubble" in this country. Obviously, you need it to a certain extent, but when the square footage of retailers is growing at a much faster pace then either the population growth or income growth, you realize this growth can't last forever. Without...

With such an ignorant population, how can we be so prosperous? The people running the country are the baby boomers, plus you have tremendous amounts of foreign investments and foreign knowledge and brainpower coming here, thus it creates a realitively prosperous country. I say relatively...

I read about this latest survey of young people polled on geography questions. It just astonished me. Dumbfounded might be a better word. 18-24 year olds were polled in this country and 11% of them couldn't find the US on a world map!!!! God help us all. 87% couldn't find Iraq, 49% couldn't find...

I've never understood the wild success of the Sopranos. It seems so cliched. The "fughedaboutit" kind of attitude, the cliched names of some of those guys. It's funny, if it portrayed any other ethnicity, people would be jumping up and down about it. Can you imagine a one hour show on a...

Deterence won't solve all crime. If you're a drug addict looking for money to get your weekly fix, are you going to worry about someone having a concealed weapon on them if you try to rob them? Hardly. All you'd care about is your drug money. We need massive change in the criminal justice...

Is that photo from when he visited South Korea, and was taking a look at the DMZ and North Korea?

Completely absurd. Stocks can be just as risky as options. Ask those who bought THC in the 50's a week or two ago (now at a whopping $14.90). Let's just limit stock purchases to one a week. When is the govt going to wake up, and let people be grown ups who take responsibility for their own...

A gun control topic. And alot of people responding! Well, what a suprise that is. Seriously, I won't get into a rant, I'll discuss both sides here: As I see, you can have a peaceful society in several different ways: Japan-No guns, no crime (relative to other G 7 countries). How do they...

I think to be fair, I can see where the efficient market theorists are getting at least some of their claims. For example, 99% of the news stories across the wires are almost immediately factored into the stock price. Reading about news stories the next day for example won't get you anywhere...

Technical analysis is seen somewhere between tarot cards and voodoo according to the academic "theorists". I just can't believe this stuff is still taught in schools. The fundamental flaw as I see it in their arguement is assuming that all market participants will view the same information...

This is an interesting concept. Very similar to the martingale betting system (if you're playing blackjack for example). When you are playing basic strategy black jack (no counting), the odds are very close to 50-50 for each hand (with a slight edge for the house). So if you lose 5 hands in a...

Imagine the possible lawsuits now: Italy sues Caesars Palace (bad representation of Romans) Egypt sues the Luxor (lost tourism revenue due to people not making the real trek to Egypt) France suing the Paris hotel Ringling Bros Circus suing Circus Circus hotel (after all, it cheaps...

I don't know what else the Russians could have done. An analogy could be drawn between that situation and the situation here in the US, where fighter planes had orders to shoot down any rogue planes near metropolitan areas. I didn't hear any complaints about that. Killing a few hundred innocent...

The news media has blown this story up to immense proportions. Remember, we are in a 24 hour media world, and with this story happening right outside a media headquarters like Washington DC, you can expect a feeding frenzy. The school closures, the military being involved, the ATF, FBI and local...

Everyone has their favorite TA methods. Personally, I use BB's, volume and MACD histogram to come up with trade candidates. I never got into Stochastics, OBV, Fibonacci, etc. Some people swear by them, others don't. The tightening of the bands is another useful application to see volatility...

With WTO membership, the Olympics in 2008, a rapidly expanding economy,etc, China has too much to lose by starting some problems with Tawain. Now the US, may in fact be the aggressor here. Do they want to see China become the largest economy in the world with one of the largest militaries...

One of my favorite TA tools are Bollinger Bands. I keep them at the standard, 20 day, 2 standard deviation setting. It's amazing to me, that no matter what stock chart I pull up, from no matter what country, a stocks price action is contained within the bands 90% or more of the time. To me...

The US doesn't like other countries breaking agreements, but when we break major ones (i.e. with the Missle Defense Shield), well that's different. Or if Israel defies UN resolutions. We are silent on that. I'm still optimistic about this. The regime in N Korea doesn't seem as nutty as...