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Hitler killed a lot of people on the Eastern Front, but not because they were Christian. They were killed because they were Slavic, because they were Jewish, because they were combatants, or simply because they were in the way. As for the Red Terror, the Russian civil war, and the Stalinist...

All of us, every day in our adult lives, have to parse the difference between statements that could be friendly banter, could be aggressive & hateful, or could simply be factual, all depending on the tone and context. It's a simple test that you utterly failed when you went nuts over this...

This thread is retarded. The original poster utterly overreacted to a innocuous statement taken out of context & misunderstood. (As for the historicity of Jesus, that couldn't possibly be less relevant.) The truth is, a lot of anti-Semitic rhetoric does dwell on the role of Jews in the death...

Well of course not, because it went back to 138! "Confirmed reversal" is like "bear market" or "recession"... it is retrospective by definition. Martin

The funny thing is I keep hearing this from Republican elites, who are about as far from being ordinary Americans as you can get. AAA you're not fooling anyone. There's no gun rack in your pickup truck. There are plenty of rednecks, racists and idiots who hate Obama, and I don't think he...

makloda, you can't look at household net worth as if it were a single giant household paying down a $950 billion dollar credit card bill with assets of $55 trillion. Credit card debt is concentrated at the low end of the income range, relative to net worth which is obviously concentrated at the...

No, that's 26% per year. If it were 100% per year, oil would be at $11,264 per barrel. Oil supply has been flat since 2005. Latent demand has been increasing at 3% per year. The price elasticity of demand for oil has so far been very low. Hence the sharp increase in prices. Econ 101. With...

These aren't new finds. These are well explored, well known formations that are extremely difficult and expensive to develop. Investors in these plays clearly believe that $80+ oil is here to stay, certainly they don't expect "relief" for oil shortages.

steve0617 writes: "Prior to me having raid using just a plain old Dell box, more than once, in the background, the drive was swapping out data when I clicked a trade." "No more. Quad processor, 4 gigs of ram, and dual 10K drives." All you needed was the 4g RAM. All the rest is window...

No. You do not need RAID-0. You don't need any of the crap you bought. A five year old computer from a garage sale will let you trade just fine. It is mindboggling to me that people think they need a supercomputer to run such incredibly rudimentary applications. It's like driving a Ferarri...

Yes RAID-0 improves read and write performance. It also approximately doubles the chance of losing any given file due to drive failures. What is your application? Without understanding the application it's impossible to know whether RAID-0 will significantly improve system throughput. If you...

I thought not.

In what way is SKF safer than shorting XLF?!?

Read some history before you disparage others mental capacity. Hawaii was annexed into the US in a coup staged by Americans, supported by US armed forces in the name of US commercial interests. Ironic that you're not even aware of this yet you go on and on about China and Tibet. Martin

I understand that you are tired of it, I am too. But that doesn't make it unjustified. Given the way this country has treated black people for the last several hundred years, even to this day, I am willing to tolerate a little over-compensation. You have seen perhaps a minute or two of oratory...

Do you believe that black anger is unjustified? Martin

Cutten you really haven't thought this through. There are holes in your logic big enough to drive a truck through. 1) Bear Stearns is worth more today BECAUSE it was rescued by JPM. On Sunday, Bear Stearns was worth $0 or $2. Do you think the people bidding on BSC today would have dreamed of...

Who cares what BSC was worth last quarter, that's a lifetime ago in this market. JPM's market action today values BSC at $96/share. 12.8B / 136M shares plus the $2 acquisition price. How is BSC worth $96/share to JPM, when it was worth $70 a week ago, and considering it's been losing...

Hey DeepFried, It's been about a year. HSGFX is up 4.43% since we talked last. S&P 500 down 5.33%. Hope your clients are doing OK. Too bad they weren't investing in this "pig" fund that "nobody in their right mind would be satisfied with." Martin

Oh, say it ain't so. You're going to stop working long hours... err.. trading futures contracts? The US economy will never be the same. These dangerous, distortionary tax proposals need to be stopped, or more hard working leeches like ourselves might be forced into a life of productivity...