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That is the crux of the matter. Everything has been or will be sacrificed to save the banking system and to try and re-flate again and again.

I agree with the premise that posting bids that have no interest in being filled is the de-facto argument for market manipulation...The speed and frequency of the bids is pure evidence that no attempt is being made to actually make a bonafide goodwill effort to "transact". Hence, it's a tool to...

HFT, at its very core, is a last ditch attempt to inflate at all costs. It enables the market to continue to re-flate with almost no retail participation (i.e. constant outflows) and still record insider selling. It's a "corner" on the market, but is disguised as a "liquidity" enhancement...

I'd believe it. It's heavily concentrated on the East coast and most specifically Wall Street. Outside of that, I don't believe the Ivy League is as big of a deal as many assume.

Might be true about EMR's points. I'll add my two cents. Most public schools (key word here "most") offer more practical majors; i.e. alot of smaller private schools are still stuck in the liberal arts scope of study. Therefore, it's probably far more likely that a state school grad will...

Yes, this points needs to be re-emphasized and re-printed everywhere for the thick skulled variety to finally understand that "bailing out" these "sacred" institutions does nobody a favor except the crony fucks who lobby for expanded financing to "anyone and everyone". It's become...

Sadly, stock777 is living proof of what years of exposure to this fraudulent farce of a market will do to someone. After awhile, everyone develops into a "cynic's" cynic. The inflate at all costs, damn the consequences mentality of a monetary system that is long in the tooth casts aside...

And he still has 95% of the black population as a captive voting block. But that's about all he's got at this point.

The hidden secret is that with a guaranteed pension, it boosts consumer spending enormously? Why? If you KNEW that no matter how much of your current salary you spent, you'd still be set with a very generous retirement package, why would you save a dime? It's also why we can have an economy...

I suggest your next thread be titled "How I plan to off myself and reduce my burden on the taxpayers".

Yes, this is exactly right. Perhaps, the same can be said for Spain, as I had read about a similar property bubble with banks up to their eyeballs in bad debt and massive overbuilding (over speculation). It is an entire food chain of parasites that are supported by this reckless fiscal...

Right, let's just nuke every other aspect of the economy to save the precious housing market and keep prices elevated so every working stiff literally slaves his life away just to pay off the mortgage note. Fucking brilliant. I got a better idea. Let the housing market collapse and return...

Heck, no need to reach those levels to incite anarchy. I'd say add a few percentage points and cut off food stamps and unemployment insurance and you see cities burning.

Cause it was essentially used to shore up the public sector pension system for a few years. Just more ponzi bullshit to carry us thru till the next solvency crisis.

Heck, I've seen the "intern scam" going on for close to 20 years now. Who knows, maybe it's been around even longer. I'm sure there are some more defined laws as it pertains to say manual labor or manufacturing, no way in hell that somebody could hire an intern for that type of work. However...

Agree in part with your idea, but I'd boost the age to minimally 16, but realistically 18. They are better off developing some social skills, at least a bit of emotional maturity before they are put into a system like you advocate. At the very least, it would bypass the stage where they enter...

What a complete and total fucking coward you are. You're like that douchebag who talks shit while driving by in a car, but doesn't have the balls to say it to their face. Everybody is a genius with the benefit of hindsight.

I suppose the "bullets" that he is referring to are continuing to pump asset prices higher in the "Asset Reflation v2.0". We've seen this garbage before, and the typical retort is always "why is the Dow at xyz if the economy sucks?". It's the ultimate coward argument, but it can be effective...

Most things written on this site have to be taken with a large grain of salt. After all, if everyone showed up in person, you'd more than likely find out the guys and gals you are debating with are still of college age and lack a great deal of perspective. That being said...with regards to...

Explain to me how you can have a re-fi boom, with such a large percentage of homeowners underwater by 20-40%.