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Just remember folks, also for the sake of "fairness", if they can globally "unite" on capping banker's pay then they can also work in tandem on transaction taxes. Perhaps apples and oranges, but with leftist or "progressive" governments, one isn't that far from the other. Just saying.

Most days I don't even have them or the other channels on. I know you all will laugh at me, but most days, while I'm trading or even just looking for a trade, the Food Network is on. Don't know why, can't explain it, but it doesn't bother me like CNBC or that other joke, Fox Business. Outside...

Maritime traffic?!? I'm sure the luxury boat goers in the Riviera are going to love to hear that. My stars, if it has a pulse, this guy wants to tax it. And this is the "conservative" party guy in France?

The day DeFazio has ceased representing Oregon will be our version of watching Gorbechev on television declaring the USSR was finished. This is our cold war, so long as that threat, and it's principle proponent is in power, you are right this war will not be won. The leading accolytes of this...

Maybe the government should open up their own FX bucket shop. :p

From my understanding, these astronomical numbers are based on a 80 or 90 year projection of total spending. For Medicare, for example, which the unfunded liabilities now stand at $89 Trillion over the entire period. If the former time frame of 80 years, then you're talking spending of upwards...

Don't underestimate the desperation of government in the need for funds. I was watching CSPAN 3 today and they had that question and answer session for the Peterson-Pew Commission on Budget Reform. One of the commissioners, Alice Rivlin, said essentially that all revenue gathering mechanisms...

I think, eventually down the road, someone will come up with a hybrid of fiat and asset-backed. Not sure how, but both systems didn't last long. There has to be a way to take the advantages of both and find a way to make them compatible.

That's been my problem as well, even with just one window, FF eventually starts to "grow." It's faster and more responsive than Internet Explorer, but Chrome wins hands down in the speed department. It's relatively clean compared to the others.

Are you talking about his suggestion of handing over the Fed to computers?

The markets from that era and today are completely different worlds. Hell, the market from the 1980s is radically different from today! Back then who really actively traded? What was the volumes like, not just 1966 but 1986? I did a little research in my local library, and guess what I...

H1 nor any vaccine, but oh man that bloody mary I think was responsible for at least 2 points on my P&L...more L than P! :D

That's what I thought....damn those vampire politicians. Why can't we impose a tax on these bastards?

Forgive me, now I'm confused. I thought it was on the value of the transaction, not the profits?

Dammit, that's what I'm talking about! Didn't someone post a while back that she was against a transaction tax or that Germany wouldn't come up with one? Now we got this!?! That's why I'm dubious about Rudd!

Quite honestly, I've always never bought that whole "open democracy pro-humanitarian" line from Soros following his tenure at Quantum. In fact, I highly doubt he really ever left his fund. To me, George Soros is like that James Bond villain, Max Zorin from A View To A Kill. That character...

thanks riskit. also, folks, regarding financial centers. It's in the "Global North" that we need to see what happens. That means centers in the EU, Australia, US, Canada, New Zealand, Singapore, and Japan. The reason I say "Global North" is because that's who the climate eco-maniacs are...

slightly off topic, is that 100k exemption on the value of the transaction or the profit?

Gang, actually this is something we really need to pay attention to. Something tells me if there is to be a transaction tax that has the capability of going global, it may come from something like this. Think about it for a second, you got these politicians proclaiming that there is a...

Oh man.....I don't even know where to begin with that, except still remain perplexed about how he still has a show.