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I don't get what you're asking. Is it my position on outsourcing? I'm against widespread outsourcing, it may produce a short term gain but once you've given enough means of production to another country you start feeling all of the negative externalities that go along with it.

Exactly what lemmings say as they follow the leader right off the cliff. Just don't come crying when you try to sell your positions when a bubble collapses only to find out GS high-frequency trading platforms has beaten you to the punch.

Agents maximizing their own pay-off subject to perceived game theory nash equilibrium. Chrysler Financial CEO: "Hmm.. Should I pay back the government now and risk the mid-long term financial stability of the company OR keep the money and be subjected to whatever pay-cuts the government wants...

http://www.economist.com/businessfinance/displayStory.cfm?story_id=13998760&source=hptextfeature "The problem is that although many venture capitalists have been outstanding at raising cash, they have been pretty lousy at investing it. Even after the dotcom bust, endowments, pension funds and...

Nice strawman. I never stated that unions are a necessarily positive force; in fact I am personally outraged at the action various unions have taken at the behest of unwitting employers. That said, it is delusional to fail to see the basic economics underpinning the forces guiding...

Read 'The Grapes of Wrath' by Steinbeck. When depression strikes and there is a vast over-supply of labour, desperate men are taken advantage of by ruthless employers. I mean, you could conceivably not enforce a minimum wage. But you would either have to provide an effective and efficient...

Illogical premise. Perhaps the North became rich off the cheap labour of the South through indirect means?

7-8% returns for stocks is not a "BS" theoretical amount. Indeed, stocks should theoretically return far more than bonds over any "lengthy" time horizon, as they exhibit more volatility and such risk must be compensated. There are therefore 3 possibilities as to why 25 year bonds have...

A public-private body that regulates banks and interest rates is not a bad idea in theory. Of course, to be sustainable, it would require: a) Far more transparency and accountability. b) To be stricken of its right to create any form of money (M1, M2, M3, etc). c) A privatized...

Naw, the 30% chance could be the better case scenario and maybe they make big chunks of money (e.g., their insurance and derivatives pay off instead of costing money). So you could get 0 x 0.7 + $$$ x 0.3

And if they trade in all their worthless fiat money for real commodities and get the power to charge whatever they want for those commodities like OPEC?

I'm not really following. If you own a call on a stock or index, you don't actually receive a dividend or any dividend yield. If the stock is to pay a dividend at t = 1, the option value should theoretically incorporate this expected fact and be valued as if the stock magically dropped in...

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If you believe in efficient arbitrage pricing of options (B-S model), this method wouldn't really be leveraging dividends, since the receipt of dividends is priced into the model.

Construct a portfolio of t-bills, t-bonds, blue-chip debt and put-options?

http://www.cnbc.com/id/31801659 "The cyber attack on the exchange's Web site follows several technology-related incidents at the exchange last week. Among these incidents was an erroneous notice of delisting for American International Group [AIG 13.09 -0.66 (-4.8%) ] and an issue with...

1 + 1 = ... = 3?

When people switch from Hallmark to Dollar Store cars.... Lower prices !!! Higher Real Wages !!! ... no? ... but the CPI says so...

Good analysis, you just forgot to mention how banks magically creating credit (and Wall Street firms buying the magic loans from banks) worked to fuel the consumption/investment binge and exacerbated the whole situation.

1) I'm not high on anything, I disdain Obama's economic "policy." I do, however, feel he is a good person and able to judge a person's character, albeit an economically confused one. 2) I know Goldman and Wall Street has backed Obama and the various links between the two. But this article...