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You did not directly answer any of my posted points and refer me to the Federal reserve website. If I said a certain investment was a ponzi scheme, would you refer me to their website for a lovely article on why they are misunderstood and being persecuted? Perhaps a third party source is more...

"The independent, U.S. Federal Reserve System is in large part the reason that U.S. financial strength is respected around the world, " Another interpretation is that in 1971 the Bretton Woods agreement was not honored (essentially a default) and thus the US dollar became the defacto world base...

There is far more evidence on each side but the basic argument is below for those who wish to decide for themselves: http://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/about_14986.htm vs http://www.save-a-patriot.org/files/view/frcourt.html So we have an organization that issues private non-negotiable...

I would have to side with Piezoe here. Enron was audited, congressional insider trading was audited, the NSA is audited, and the Fed is audited. So auditing will not solve the issue necessarily. I think Fort Knox was audited as well. Now that S&P was punished for the downgrade of the USD in some...

Could you please enlighten us a bit more as to what "unreal" Zombies would look like in our world?

"They are trying to inflate not deflate." Inflation is supposed to come from QE. However, that has not occurred as you pointed out. QE has failed. The issue is the size of the bond bubble and the need to exponentially increase bonds to attempt to keep the current monetary system going. At the...

Yes but I am trying to fix it as I get older.

It's a strange strange world we live in master jack ..... http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-01-30/denmark-you-are-now-paid-take-out-mortgage So why have a bank middleman ..... I can foresee bank competition saying we will pay you more that that bank. The government will not be able to...

Negative interest rates are a desperation play IMO since QE has failed and they need new ideas to keep the old game going. The intent is to save the banking system and deflate the bond bubble without an debt counter-party explosion ripping apart the world currency (AKA debt) exchange system...

Interesting thread. I think part of the problem is that deflation is not falling prices and inflation is not rising prices. A previous ET thread once pointed out that the definition of inflation had been changed in the dictionary and that was true when I checked it against my grade school...

I have realized that one main reason I study the news and input is for position/portfolio risk management and not particularly for my own interest. I do get curious when I see such stuff as world to end on January 26 or the 28 reasons Canada is doomed forever.- so part of it is my own nature...

Yes, that's why an old method is to trade the mutual fund manager stocks to earn better returns than the mutual funds. The key is to discern the purpose of a mutual fund and the purpose someone employed in the business. An investor seeks return for their money and a manager seeks a profitable...

I hope this is the correct forum to ask this question. Please feel free to move this thread if it is not. My trading is still doing fine, however, I am looking for suggestions on how people control their information flow in today's world. I find an explosion in emails, blogs, posts, etc. but my...

LOL - nice picture. I completely agree with your post. One issue is that HFT promoters have muddied the waters as to what is illegal and what is not for many who do not understand the ins and outs of the market microstructure. I am still trading this market, still making (and sometime losing)...

More gravy for the HFT crowd. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-10-16/hft-firm-athena-engaged-massive-closing-price-manipulation-called-it-gravy

Are you are unable to defend your argument for objectivity? Look way back into the thread for the reason no one should be setting up HFT shops. => Rule 603(a)(2)

I have noticed that frequently the worst "large" firms are bought out rather than being allowed to go into bankrupcy. I am not sure if this is because some potentially embarassing truths may come out of the rubble or for some other reason unrelated like accounting writeoffs or tricks. Perhaps it...

An old post to show the two sides. A similar argument to mercenary trader's argument except that not everything said is true in some articles. Check into the history of black bart for more context. The market is either fair or fake, there is no middle ground. If it is fake, then it serves...

This is one of the dumbest arguments IMO - they provide a "service". The payment for "service" is make/take which he somehow conveniently forgets to mention in his poker analogy (because his whole argument falls apart). If everyone had the same access to provide the "service" then he might have...

So is the reason for less traffic to this site that the HFT supporters are now on the lam? The posted arguments for HFT were truly comical at times. Reminds me of union strike "pilfer pay" from the 1970s. The complaint against cargo containers by longshoreman in a strike was that they...