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They have and you are on the losing side of that deal. The MM's are exempt and that puts them at an advantage over you. But, if you like to be disadvantaged and be forced to pay up for a stock should you be silly enough to send a market order, then you should be happy.

I'm assuming you're basing this on the reems of research you've done and not on your anecdotal experience? No? The extensive research performed before the repeal of the rule showed that: 1.) the uptick rule did not effect volatility for liquid stocks. 2.) the short volume even in the...

Here's an example of how the U.S. government and local governments thwart the efforts of health care providers to actually provide health care. The state is trying to shut down a New York City doctor’s ambitious plan to treat uninsured patients for around $1,000 a year. Dr. John...

That's because your safety valve is the United States. If the Canadian wait list is too long, the Canadian in question can just pop over to the United States to pay to have the procedure performed with no wait time. It's not a "my country is better than your country thing". I lived in...

I'm confident this is a question Maxine Waters asked herself.

The choice is clear: Politics

People have left their ancestral homes to move to the United States for centuries. Don't be so sure that they won't leave the United States as well. People respond to incentives. WRT the article....I think that this tax was replaced a few months ago with the HEART legislation. The HEART...

I am most definitely not a leftist and I don't wish for the demise of America (my adopted country). I fear that may happen. Point number 1 is valid so long as demand from other countries doesn't increase by more than the demand from the U.S. falls. Further, the demand destruction is...

What a relief. The guys in congress <i>really</i> know what they're doing.

No. It's the idiot Obama in office.

Place the blame appropriately? If power is for sale, it will be bough by someone. If you don't buy it for your shareholders, then you have failed in your duty as a CEO. The problem is that so much power is concentrated in the hands of a few in the first place. This is what the founding...

Then they should be allowed to fail. Full stop. When the government decides to nationalize an existing company, then you're going to have these problems. This whole broohaha is created by government.

Took the words right out of my mouth. When can we expect the unaccountable congress critters to gas themselves for their failures? When will we hold them accountable?

Let's have an educated, highly skilled workforce engaged in the production of cheap, uncompetitive crap. That's the ticket.

I agree with everything you said except the naked short selling bit. If the logic of disallowing naked short selling is that it exceeds the float, then we should also disallow commodity futures because the number of obligations to deliver outstrips the supply of (insert your favourite...

They can't. None of the exchanges have the capability to implement it. If it comes back, the process will take a long long time and there will be a billion ways to get around it.

You either need a lecture on statistics or you are merely intellectually dishonest. When you cherry pick two data points and then ask coyly "coincidence?" the implication is that you think it's not. Judging by what's been crawling out of Princeton lately, I know that intellectual honesty...

Naked shorts are nothing more than futures on the stock. It is theoretically possible to manipulate the stock with endless naked short selling, but as the price falls below fair value, the bids pick up, so all the excess shares created are absorbed by an increasing demand as the price falls...

BINGO! Well done.

Anaconda, You kill me. Everything you say is true, but the way you put it gave me a much needed laugh. Thanks.