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Well, it depends on what you mean by "good life". If you are going to be leaving them $5MM each, then yes, I would want to take it away. If you're leaving them $500k each, then no, they can have it. Don't get too hung up on the levels I've used (5MM and 500k), but that's the basic principle...

And you call yourself a Democrat. Hmph! :) Personally, I think estate taxes a BRILLIANT idea! What benefit is there in allowing family financial empires? Why shouldn't everyone have to work their way up in society, rather than have everything handed to them on a silver platter? If it was...

My, my, such insight. Yes, I could have simply PMed Baron. Then again, I could have also posted my concerns publicly on the Feeback forum -- which is what it's here for -- so that other members can offer their own ideas/critiques on what I am proposing. But you db, well, you saw right...

Gordon, as I explained to you in the post that was deleted here, it is a simple matter for me to ignore posters who constantly post crap. In fact, I already do. It's just that some people tend to get very upset at the levels of "crap" on ET and begin demanding "tougher moderating standards" --...

"sid vicious" also appears a likely candidate for a banning. In his 13 posts thus far he has had exactly one reasonably acceptable post with the rest being pure and utter rubbish and his posting pattern would indicate that he was not a new member when he signed up in June, but rather signed up...

The mood seems very buoyant doesn't it. Spitzer catches mutual funds in blatantly illegal activities and the market doesn't even blink.

Gekko, I actually don't dislike you, believe it or not. Which isn't to say I really like you, either. You're just another poster, as far as I'm concerned. I do think you make out to know a whole lot more than you really do (you seem confused with the difference between liking an idea and...

Now you're starting to catch on! :) (Personal opinion: the value of the Whartons, Chicagos and Harvards isn't so much in the 'calibre' of their teaching staff, or their 'committment to academic excellence' -- although they like you to believe it -- as it is in the prestige, developing...

But the question is, will this "step by step trading guide" actually make you any money? Highly unlikely, don't you think? When you consider that you're going against career professionals who probably, on average, have 157 times more knowledge than is contained in your "guide"? And...

I would like to offer a suggestion that certain types of posters be banned. Some members sign up usernames and all they do is post is what any half-mature member could honestly only consider complete and utter crap. Often it is quite obvious that they already had a previous ET username, as...

I don't have much of an opinion on the trade, maybe just that PG is probably what you'd think of as a defensive name. Doesn't mean it can't go down, or go down more than the Dow. Overall though, if or when this market shows some strong evidence that it's cracking I think there are going to...

Lol. :D Obviously it would be cash settled, but for some reason when I read that article I thought, "oh wow, Vix futures. I wonder how that's going to work" and I just posted the question.

So you want to apply the "principles" of libertarianism and objectivism in a "rational way", right? Well, since the principles themselves are quite fanciful and irrational, what difference would it make how you apply them, rationally or irrationally? Or did you mean you'd rationally select the...

Sad day for American politics as Miguel Estrada withdraws his name from nomination to court of appeals. Absolutely disgraceful what the Democrats did to this poor guy. All for what? So they could "check" if he's a conservative? Like, he's not allowed to be? What rubbish. Why don't they...

LOL! :D You've got the wrong guy there, Metal. I am far from some 'ultra PC' liberal, I can assure you. (Maybe you missed my "Gay Marriages" thread.)

Oh, of course, cos that would solve the problem right away. :D But really now, if you want everyone else to play the 'globalism' game, then you have to play too. I've heard this mentioned a few times now. But I'm puzzled as to why this claim keeps getting regurgitated. Just how...

Says he who thinks "democracy is a dictatorship of the majority"! :D (yes, he really said that!) Look, Rand had a few interesting things to say and her novels are exciting and inspirational. And if a person wants to romanticize it all and adopt some of those principles into his own life...

Appealing to many? Maybe until they actually begin to understand its anarchic implications! It's so amusing how every single person I've ever encountered that preaches Rand, Rand, Rand is always lost in some fanciful romance of just how great life would be under this utopic system of...

Anyone know how it will be settled?

How about this for a happy medium: Before you enter, trade what you think; after you enter, trade what you see. ?