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I'm bullish on the whole energy complex. There is simply no getting around our expanding need for hydrocarbons. Interest rates are very cheap, i.e. bonds are expensive. Hong Kong real estate remains cheap. Think Chinese soil, a real judicial system, and one of the last currencies pegged to...

Definitely a tourist. Enjoy your visit. Occupancy is crap right now so rates should be great.

Depression isn't monolithic, and 'full-blown clinical depression' has no specific meaning except for the speaker. Just for one example, ever heard of manic-depressive?? In the manic phase one can have very high levels of energy, while also severely 'depressed.' This is the problem: every...

The sad reality is that depression, unrecognized and untreated, can lead to criminal activity. Still, last I checked thoughts in and of themselves are not a crime. I gave you the benefit of the doubt in assuming that you were joking. Apparently I was too generous. Welcome to my ignore list...

Exercise is helpful, but only very short-time. It is not realistic to ask someone to run three miles a day for the rest of their life. To simply leave it to exercise is to set the person up for failure, guilt, and stress, which then itself exacerbates the problem. Ignorance and remedies that...

Nobody signs up for health issues. That is what 'through sickness and in health, 'till death to us part' addresses. Do you remember that part? "but I think it's a psychosomatic problem ..." You don't have a clue.

All the jokes aside, people with depression are highly susceptible to addictive behaviors including gambling, TRADING as a form of gambling, SEX, drugs, electronic gaming. The brain wants to loop over something, even to the point of rationality, even criminality. Jesse Livermore was likely...

She needs meds, but it might take some trial and error to find what works best for her. Depression is a PHYSICAL malady that interrupts the brains' processing of signals from the endocrine system. It manifests in different ways - not always sadness & such. Oftentimes it manifests as addictive...

I lived in Hawaii for several years, and of course the answer to your question is 'it depends.' My first question to you is, how busy running around do you really want to be? Do you consider a visit to Pearl Harbor a 'must see'? How long will you be there, and are you keen to island hop -...

With this small account I only traded MHI futures, HSI options, and near-the-money Kospi options. Rarely hold anything overnight. (Currently holding HSI calls overnight in a paper-trade acct.) System has been consistently very profitable. Alas, I blew the account out trading crude oil overnight...

If anybody has access to very recent sell-side research on HSBC, I'd most appreciate if you could send some reports my way. (PM me for an e-mail address.) HSBC is exposed to Dubai world, and I'd like a gander at what the chatter is re: implications for HSBC, including time frames, target prices...

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/10/an-innocent-abroad/ An excerpt below: One explanation comes from Douglas Preston, a prominent best-selling American author who lived in the Florentine hills while researching a book about a serial killer never found, “The Monster of...

Pure unadulterated risk aversion. The market fears the next shoe to drop will not be a good one: Greece, Spain, choose your poison.

'Depression' or 'chemical imbalance' is very common, but difficult to recognize even by those who have it. That ignoramouses like you say things like 'absolutely no prescription drugs because I would be gone' only makes diagnosis treatment that much more difficult. She is better off getting...

You cannot look at the crude number in isolation - products inventories are important. PARTIAL energy inventory data is quite dangerous in that it can prompt unwarranted confidence. Not as easy as it looks.

Three reasons why the HangSeng is weak: 1. HKD is still pegged to the USD - as the USD strengthens, HKMA is under less pressure to print money to maintain the peg. (Weak dollar is very inflationary in HK.) 2. HSBC is ~14% of the HangSeng Index, and is deemed very exposed to potential Dubai...

Korea is likely #1. Taiwan and HK are also high on the list. Most of the markets you listed are likely not even in the top 10. In the US many people have an interest in the stock market, but it is usually via mutual funds, so they don't bother to follow individual names. The Nikkei has done...

If you simply move your IRA to IB, they will only let you trade instruments denominated in USD, short selling of stocks is prohibited, etc. etc. Your IRA will not formally be a 'self-directed' IRA. Perhaps I'm mistaken, but when you set up as a proper 'self-directed' IRA, you can even buy a home...

Singapore is a good choice. Some people lament a lack of 'personal freedom,' while others see this more as a lack of crime and violence. Jim Rogers traveled around the world twice, visiting almost every country and major city on the planet, and he decided to move to Singapore. At one point I...

The degenerate baby boomers completely f*cked America.