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    Is Law School a Losing Game?

    U can still make a good living without much education if you know allot about a particular "basic" business. An example is house-painting and roofing. If you know what you are doing you can put together a few crews and if the economy is ok make a professional level income. All you really...
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    Is Law School a Losing Game?

    It is a cost of living arbitrage that has little to do with if we innovate or not. Hell, look at apple. They innovate a great deal, yet the vast majority of productive work created by apple is overseas.
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    American cities that are running out of people

    Roark, More broadly, the article is about certain cities that are losing population AS A RESULT of economic decline: "There are some cities, however, which have experienced such severe hardship and decline that their populations have actually decreased significantly." So denner has in...
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    Is Law School a Losing Game?

    your relative should rightly be applauded for his hard work. However, thinking that: 1. Getting into Stanford Law school 2. Being near the top of the class 3. Getting a job at a top law firm Is simply a matter of hard work is just as silly as thinking that being a starting player in...
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    Ron Paul: "The U.S. Government Must Admit It Is Bankrupt"

    Looking at just the money/debt angle confuses things. If we are to pay off the social security, pensions, etc, the real issue is not salting away fiat money/cyber money but rather boosting REAL FUTURE WEALTH in the real economy. If in the future the goods and services are radically more...
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    Why no inflation?

    The official inflation rate must be low so that the cost of living adjustments on pensions can be paid for. They need the real inflation rate to be substantially higher than the reported rate so that the stealth default can proceed as scheduled.
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    IL state income taxes to go up 75%?!?!?!?!?!

    IL can be thought of as a ponzi/redistribution scheme from private industry to government employees and interest groups. The big one is really the bureaucracy, those, "decent people" who feed off taxpayer dollars to earn far more than they rightly would in any other job in the entire world...
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    euro zone bond auction schedule?

    nicely put together calendar, thanks.
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    euro zone bond auction schedule?

    Is anyone aware of an online source that consolidates the auction dates/times?
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    158,000 IT Jobs Sent Offshore in 2010

    Like I have said before, the private sector middle class and working class are caught in a huge global cost of living arbitrage that is being done by US corporations. At the same time that real wages are falling, our financial sector/government pump up the value of things like healthcare...
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    "Mark (Zuckerburg) stole the idea (Facebook)", Goldman panic?

    The punk is a lying snake, a natural born deceiver. He Sabotaged his own business partners. He delayed their project while secretly working on a knock off as fast as possible. There is a profound difference in values between those who find this "OK" and those who do not.
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    "Mark (Zuckerburg) stole the idea (Facebook)", Goldman panic?

    You are not current on patent law.
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    Niederhoffer's year end contest! ($2500 prize for 3 best 2011 trading ideas)

    If you are saying something that in the real world would rightly earn you a punch in the face please refrain from posting. The vulgarity is not needed. I will delete this comment if the offending post is removed.
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    IL state income taxes to go up 75%?!?!?!?!?!

    http://blog.motorists.org/red-light-cameras-increase-accidents-5-studies-that-prove-it/
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    Niederhoffer's year end contest! ($2500 prize for 3 best 2011 trading ideas)

    If it is a fundamental idea I like to do this exercise: I look at past 5 years of SEC filings and track cash flow through the financial statements from quarter to quarter and year to year. Because cash is the blood it can help tie all the moving parts together into a mental picture. I...
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    Niederhoffer's year end contest! ($2500 prize for 3 best 2011 trading ideas)

    The odds are not that dim if you understand the dailyspec site. The Spec site is put together by a group that has been communicating and exchanging ideas for years and years on a daily basis, often many times a day. When people communicate frequently within an "in group", they often pick up...
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    Thinking about doing some managed futures

    IASG, Autumngold, BarclayHedge are good sources. The fund/CTA open to you will to a large degree depend on how much you are investing.
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    IL state income taxes to go up 75%?!?!?!?!?!

    Absolutely not, they are a safety hazard and usually incredibly rude. It is fake work created for certain, shall we say, "constituencies".
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    Does IB hunt stops?

    About a month ago I received a fill in AUD futures on a limit order where I never saw price move down to my level. It was as if I was filled while the market was still 5 ticks higher, giving me an instant profit. That was sweet.
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    IL state income taxes to go up 75%?!?!?!?!?!

    Excellent point.
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