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I have had a habit of tracking CTA performance, and new CTAs in particular. I have noticed a few problems with the managed futures industry: (This is based only on my informal observation, I have not conducted a study.) 1. Money floods in just before performance tanks and losses...

Bottom line there is no security that can help you via some sort of hedge, and if there were it would likely be a bad idea. Keep it simple and just focus on making money.

"would create volume that would, in turn, pull in institutional arb players." Do you mean arb between the futures and etf, or futures/etf vs. cash? The futures/etf arb is not a problem, the problem is with an ETF where there is no arb (or much better) direct investment in a cash market...

If you think about it, how exactly would something like this be structured into a viable investment? With a stock based etf, the etf manager can "cover" their exposure by (of course) buying the basket of stocks the ETF is supposed to mirror. If they buy futures instead, the link to cash can...

how high will the price have to go before there is a serious black market?

"Tuition rates are going right on up as well, but the demand appears to be inelastic." And WHY is this? It is because government loan money is Jamming the education market, just the way it Jammed healthcare. Demand is inelastic because the market is rigged by the state. Has anyone...

No it only means we will expand both regulation and direct government employment so that more fake-work jobs can be created to employ these fake college graduates. College made sense when it was only for the elite. "Mass" university attendance is a giant fraud.

Bernanke says gold is overvalued? Who cares? He hardly has a sterling record with regards to forecasting. For example, he didn't see the current crisis until it mushroom tatooed him across the forehead. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnekzRuu8wo

We just need to let housing, education, and healthcare prices fall so that Americans can afford them again without going up to their eyeballs in debt. Oh wait, we cant do that! How could we repair our economy without inflated asset prices? Where would "growth" come from if the...

No one wants to see fatty->fatty or worse fatty->fatso pictures. We want fatty->slim. It creates the desired hopeful feeling.

no where else to put the money? Well, they could try buying our products. Wait... Do we make anything anymore???

what a moron! As a chicago grad his illogical and stupid statement makes the school look bad.

the hard thing about breaking into the "stockpicker" or 'investment analyst" position is that there is a huge oversupply of people who want those jobs. There are nowhere near enough slots for even a small fraction of those who would like to have them. CFA is a good thing to do for these...

"met some nice guys from south africa. They fled to Ireland. The government basically stole their business and all their property. Govt told them they had to give 50% of all their profits to some local black guy cause they were white. They weren't gonna run it to hand over half their money. Some...

IF you do not understand the issue this should help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQ_and_the_Wealth_of_Nations

there already is a tax on idle cash. The us GOVT effectively has a 100% tax rate on interest earned on idle cash, and negative return after income tax on the piddly interest you do get.

Ass lick? ...And if it WAS ass lick, what does this imply for the price of BP stock and the clean up efforts???

in the areas without swarms of illegals it will likely not be that bad. With illegals competing wages down to nothing, a summer job is not what it used to be. We need all states to adopt the Arizona law. and get Mexico's problems back to Mexico.

Anyone know if the phones are available?

I think they like the bubble and consumer spending et all because they know it increases the quantity of debt surfs, which is what the system is basically all about.