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A little inflation is a very good thing, which is what the Fed and most central banks target. Deflation is an extremely bad thing for a market economy, people will put off purchasing goods/services and the gears will slow or halt. The is no such thing as a static money supply, even on the...

Actually, by lowering interest rates and providing liquidity during downturns and tightening money supply and raising interest rates during upturns the fed smooths out the business cycle. Making the peaks less high and the valleys less low. How do you figure that the Fed exacerbates the...

So you are saying that there was no such thing as the business cycle before 1913? 5yr

I think it's hilarious that you wrote book after each one of them sentence 5yr salutation

Right, I am hoping that he is a 9 year old that is learning English as a second language and is just emerging from a bubble that made him incapable of paying attention to current events. If that is true then I feel bad about my previous statement. I am hoping that he trades a lot and has...

Did you just respond to one of your own inane posts with another non-sensical answer? Seriously, I have noticed you posting a lot lately and every post reminds me of this saying: "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt" Try to think or do some...

They don't run any funds, they are on the execution side. 5yr

Someone else sold them

Creativity Capital Management 5yr I think it would be ironic!

I show spot gold down $16.35. My guess is you are looking at the settlement for gold futures... it settled up $6, but it settles at 130pm EST. Since the settlement it has collapsed. 5yr

Start buying 5 years ago

Totally agree! Thanks for that, you made my night.

I am definitely an a**hole, but I order a medium regular coffee when I go to starbucks. I refuse to say "grande," because it makes me feel like a huge pu$$y. In reference to a post on the first page, I wouldn't bother to speak to someone that spelled lose as "loose" and have started threads...

SIMEX Nifty Index ... $1 per .5 tick Trades in the evening (in the US) so good for trading after work 5yr http://www.sgx.com/wps/portal/marketplace/mp-en/products/derivatives_products/equity_index/sgx_cnx_nifty

I wonder how many people have thought that and lost a lot of money... I tend to believe that US treasuries have to go down soon, but looking at this chart makes me seriously reconsider it. The major differences between the US and Japan in the 90s; Japan had the stock market bubble burst and...

Bank is only at risk if all 3 are down 25% and have never been down 30%, which is unlikely in my opinion. But yes my guess is that the bank doesn't ever buy the stocks outright, they just hedge their risk with options

I just looked at the 3rd one, it was the easiest to wrap my head around. To me it looks like a really good deal for the seller (Bank): If just one of the stocks is down 30% at any point in the next year and any of the stocks are below the start level at expiration, the investor gets the his...

How do you know who is on the other side of your futures contract? Why would it matter? 5yr

Right, adding on to what crgracia said, dividends are paid in cash, to receive capital gains you have to sell the stock. Dividends provide you with actual income. To earn the same amount you would slowly have to sell your stock, making your position smaller and smaller, dividends should increase...

In the early 1970's was the first time currencies were allowed to float freely againist one another, when Nixon took us off the gold standard. Because of the government deficits created from spending on the Vietnam War the US could not afford to stay on the gold standard. The government had to...