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It's the Illuminati who control everything who are evil right? Or is it Israel? This thread looks like one big conspiracy theory circle jerk. All this the government should control the currency and not the Fed is like saying the government should control the law and not the Supreme Court...

The interesting---and worrying---thing about this is that the evidence would seem to suggest that fiscal spending on the war effort did not pull the US economy out of the Depression as much as the demand created from abroad for the US's exports. If fiscal spending wasn't the real answer but...

Well the US better do something about energy. If one is to believe the energy markets were NOT manipulated in recent years then it would appear that higher energy prices are bound to become a chronic problem in the future. So a long term investment in energy efficiency and alternatives makes a...

I'd take the job if I knew how I could bill you. :) It looks simple though. You should be able to do it on your own.

So this ends part one? Part two to follow? Wherein Christian's poor family makes their own pilgrimage or at least the equivalent thereof?

BuyLoSellHi, you are making the case that statins don't lower LDL cholesterol, but the real question is do they lower heart disease risk?

Lots of the investors were foreigners. One must wonder how much of this is enforceable in other jurisdictions.

The first 3 choices probably deserve most of the blame. Here you have bankers and financiers who in a sane world have made a career of managing money and instead what happens is they piss it down the toilet. Maybe the educational institutions that instructed the grads that go into these...

Not a programmer but learned to code so as to use basic charting software. What are the debuggers for? If it's only to catch coding errors then even Amibroker has that. I have to agree with the idea though that its easier to create the individual indicators and build up from there since it...

Thank you for the explanation.

I'm a little concerned that everyone is assuming it is a suicide. Were there witnesses? Accident is usually the first assumption and for a case such as this one would think there would be more speculation about murder.

Why isn't the LSD going by bar18 -> 8.3 or if by bar6 -> 10? How do you compute MDRR and %tile accuracy? You're excluding outliers? So you are filtering the distribution? How are you computing these numbers? Manually through Excel? Sorry to say this is currently in the realm of Jack...

Smilingsynic, you probably referenced an example most on these boards cannot understand. They do not remember the seriousness with which the US considered the communist threat with its improving economy and scientific achievements like putting a man in space in the 1960s. Maybe if you bring...

Call me an ignoramus but what are the NYSE closing imbalances?

You sure about this? Someone living a hand-to-mouth existence one would think has a greater tendency to spend their earnings than a multi-millionaire who would either invest their money or bank it. In the current environment lots of investors aren't taking risks but instead are putting money...

Well done RiceRocket. A thread like this shows who knows how to trade bonds and who doesn't.

As the Great Depression was unfolding I doubt the analysts of the time were forecasting a GDP decline, or whatever measure was popular back then, of 20%+ either. Action is being taken now to avoid such a situation. It's called "prevention". I believe Krugman is referring to the arguments...

Well she certainly doesn't deserve to be compensated by the SIPC for her investment in Madoff's fund. All us other investors certainly don't deserve to have our confidence in the SIPC's ability to protect us and cover us lowered due to payouts to undeserving recipients. There is a remedy...

I do not see how that can be. From what I understand he controlled both a brokerage and a fund. That's why he was paying steady 10% returns to investors. Brokerages don't do that. If for example a client had a brokerage account with Madoff worth 100000 and 60000 was placed in the fund...

SIPC is there to protect all investors covered by it. All these other investors are hurt when it is asked to cover claims it isn't supposed to. On the other hand, if there is a legitimate claim they better cover it or it will be shown to be useless protection. What I am not clear on is...