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LOL - you have an unfortunate handle to make that comment!

Could you let us know the bank so that we can get our money out before April 2014? When I was partially responsible for our enterprise security, a person saying this would have been transferred to where he can do no more harm. I have seen hackers crack completely internal high-security server...

If the store-of-value asset is centrally controlled, corruption is possible by that controller. If the asset is created, then excessive creation leads to inflationary effects and mis-use of the power. A hard to find, unchanging metal like gold was an attempt at both, but I think it will not work...

Isn't the authority distributed - like the internet? Middlemen like banks and representatives are no longer needed. Government has to be centralized due to its overuse of force and control with its carefully designed legal system that keeps things in order - obey the constitution when it...

As I mentioned in other threads, government can be destroyed by the internet's destruction of distribution systems and intermediaries. Since money is how the government taxes people's labor and corporations, how does the government finance itself in the future? Governments have attacked...

I agree, we need something much more solid to evaluate like say TWTR shares! At least there is a way of getting a logical valuation for those. (I guess I just don't know the proper method to use.) Most of the best traders I know have long ago realized that the short term market is driven by...

Because the FBI seized some of it and the senate is publicly discussing it. Therefore most likely there are other investigations going on that are not so public. So the government has seen the threat and will resist it strongly I think. Remember strong encryption was at one time considered...

Baron, I hope you were talking about Bitcoin and not the USD. One difference is that one is a virtual currency used (reportedly) only for criminal activity and the other is a fiat currency only used by legitimate enterprise (like the Fed and the treasury government). I would really like...

I would advise caution at mentoring relatives. In my experience, most seekers think traders have some kind of magic secret and once they find it out, they will be rich too with little effort. It is a very similar expectation to socialism - I am equal (or better) to the trader and thus will make...

On a related matter: mf-global-customers-will-recover-all-they-lost "The authorities came to believe that an employee in MF Global’s Chicago office transferred the customer money, perhaps inadvertently, to banks like JPMorgan Chase." Interesting wording - does that mean that a rogue...

Unsure of what reality show to watch tonight. Turn off the cable and watch the news - its cheaper and more twists and turns with better subplots IMO. There has been a lot of world attention on American issues - some deserved and some not in my view. The average folks I meet are wonderful in...

Yes, I am referring to the bureaucrats that define and set policy as having emotional qualities. I do believe that groups have a kind of combined-personality with emotional traits at times. Thanks for your gracious comments.

It is the age old labor vs capital feud. (Today it is cast as the Democrats and the Republicans in the USA but actually one group of Kings). In the feudal system where this new system was born, the serfs in squalor would secretly ask this while the kings in luxury thought the peasants were...

Truth is ... IMO there is only one party in Washington. They work for the same corporations and are well paid. If follows then, that to debate who is better, is an "angels on the head of a pin" discussion. As to a debt problem, we will know in a decade or two if it's a problem or not. So far...

...... and venezuela right now.

No, the NSA has been advised of the issue and an upgrade is coming when the government opens again.:)

With the shutdown there has been a dearth of information to help traders to make their decisions. In the interest of helping out , I present the following world map which recently came to (my) attention. http://www.targetmap.com/viewer.aspx?reportId=3073 The big question is go long or go...

There is an adage on the street something like: the harder it is to take a trade by your rules, the more likely it is a winner. The concept principle is that the masses can't be in at a turn and the longer it takes to be certain, the higher the cost of entry. So you are right on the money...

Simple rules, dynamic system and non-linear behavior is a chaotic system not a random system. See "The flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil can set off a tornado in Texas." - the title of a 1972 paper by MIT’s Edward Lorenz, who began as a meteorologist.

Sometimes, certain posters "speak the same language" as others. Two people can be saying the same thing but different people love or hate it simultaneously. You may be interested in past threads called "who is really making a living trading options" or "Is option trading really profitable as...