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I've built a position, I'm thinking of adding the last of it today or tomorrow, it's a hedge, I think our dollar's going to fall (maybe really hard and fast) and that's how I'm going to play it. Not leveraging for now so I can take a lot of heat, but might short term once a downtrend is...

Isn't that the current yield? I was looking for the nominal yield so I can calculate from the price it's selling for what the yield is. I can look at Yahoo Finance for the current yield, which is calculated from the price, but I'm not sure what price they're using (delayed or not, the futures...

What is the nominal yield for the 30 year bond? I've searched a little, but am having trouble finding the info.

Yes, that's definitely more accurate :) Just meant market was taking them as good.

AXP earnings were good, it's up quite a bit AH. CAT and MMM coming tomorrow. I think MMM's are expected to be good. (just for perspective compared to TXN)

The laptop's fairly old and everything is backed up, so I'm not worried about that, just wanting to know what a good replacement laptop would be.

gnome, you're making me laugh. My toddler son likes to climb and we were on a trip last week, our house is toddler-proofed the best it can be, but the condo we were staying at was not. The entertainment center had stuff piled on top of it as much as we could fit up there so he couldn't get to...

Anyone have a laptop that goes easy on the power and runs pretty cool that they can recommend? Mine gets really hot, which makes it run slowly. I carry it around with me a lot, so one of those platforms with fans isn't really a good option for me.

My family's here and they've made it clear they're not budging. I've lived in enough different places to know that the location doesn't make up for not being near the people I love, so we stay here. For fun, we take lots of walks, in our location there are actually a lot of trees, lakes, and...

The property taxes on our rental home in the Dallas area are around 2.5% (we've made the decision to remain flexible in this job market, especially since my husband works for a company not based here). Other people I know pay about the same, the areas I can speak for are Dallas, Richardson...

This site also auctions a lot of government foreclosures: http://www.bidselect.com . I encountered it because one of the MLS listings I was looking at said property to be sold at auction on this site.

I've thought about this some. Technology has to some extent mitigated the effects of the dilution. We can make more out of the resources we have, mine, and grow. There are going to be hard times, though, at certain points because technology just hasn't kept up with growing demands or when...

What about all the financial gurus that preached for years that renting was just "throwing your money away" and you need to get into a house as soon as possible? I'd like to see more outrage against these "experts."

If you sort the threads by # of responses or # of views it will bring some of the good threads to the surface, at least it would be a start.

Are his largest positions US companies, though? Just wondering. I thought he was big on China, too.

So, libertad, when are you going to buy your private island and let us all be citizens??? :D

Sorry I deleted my last post, I decided after posting it to not throw myself into a political argument. I did say what was quoted by me, though, would have kept it up if I'd noticed a reply had already been written to it.

Betting against 30-year bonds was the best trade I could come up with, too, to hedge against the inflation I think is coming. Exactly how do you place the trade like he's talking about?

For you traders of ZB out there, what is your opinion right now? Is it going to fall much more? I'm sure they'll try to inflate our way out of the recession, so that's bearish for bonds, but the treasury bills are still going for such low interest rates (last auction about 1.122%). How much...

From what I'm finding, it was pretty much non-news, just a bunch of general resolutions: http://www.thestreet.com/story/10441948/1/g-7-offers-support-for-financial-firms.html?puc=googlen&cm_ven=GOOGLEN&cm_cat=FREE&cm_ite=NA...