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True. We pay for police incompetence. However, if the victim of police carelessness is compensated and the taxpayer suffers eventually police incompetence will become a political issue and will/may be addressed. No guarantee but we have to start somewhere.

When the cops screw up like this they should compensate the victim of their carelessness - every time. Too often an innocent citizen is harmed by police negligence and released without so much as an apology.

What? I supervised Toronto housing projects for years. You're the one with the candyass, politically correct, completely uninformed, ivory tower, gated community, bogus and BS ideas. I actually KNOW whereof I speak. You get your ideas from gov't pamphlets.

Quote from nytimes article: "...the Dominion’s more international, geographically diverse immigrant population probably discourages balkanization and self-segregation." This is B.S. There's a lot of interracial socializing, romancing, and marrying in Canada but for the greater part...

It's a guy snow-snorkeling. Popular up here in the Great White North. We're trying to get it included in the Winter Games. Seriously.

Illogical. No one can look in a mirror and see an "average American". The average American is a statistical fiction that has 2.33 children and 2/3 of a dog. By accepting the actual existence of an average American you assign blame for indiscretions committed by any group of Americans to all...

IMO Inflation-adjusting the old highs for Gold, Silver, the DOW is just plain silly. The old highs were set for reasons particular to the time they were set and unless we can demonstrate that the reasons for the present prices are the same as they were in a previous period there's no relation...

The RAT was convicted because he didn't have enough pull with Goldman Sachs. His Gupta connection didn't do it. Any self-respecting thief knows that you have to dedicate at least a few years to GS to get immunity.

It's actually more like one rescuee every couple of days per lifeguard and only a few of them (rescuees) require resuscitation. Besides the lifeguards have special tube-gizmos that allow them to avoid direct lip-to-lip intimacy. Yeah, I'd take the job at 35k if they'd let me daytrade between...

We're getting mixed signals on QE. We keep hearing about the economy being on the mend. American workers are going down the tubes but major American internationals are awash in cash. It's about how you define 'the economy'. If we get QE3 it may be a mini-QE and may result in a rising $ in...

Many public "servants" are outrageously overpaid. The wages of McDonalds or Target employees are never cited when the public service unions invoke the 'Equal pay for equal work' argument. $200k a year for sunbathing on a tower is nuts. It should be that public service employees trade off high...

US internationals have been raking in huge profits on the back of the depressed US$. If the Dollar keeps climbing stocks will take a drubbing. Dollar up 1% today; Dow, SPY off 1%. Does this Dollar rally has legs/no legs?

There must be thousand available people as qualified as Draghi for the position. If you think that GS alumni hold so many key positions in government and finance because they're talented you're wilfully blind.

Good point. The power to manipulate commodities prices simply by altering the margin requirements is a license to steal. Insiders short a commodity then slam that commodity with a series of hikes in margin requirements until the commodity crashes. Yet another example of the way "capitalism"...

Hey.. speculators aren't evil but they are gamblers; if they weren't trading commodities or futures or options they'd be at the track.

Addendum: Yes, a mad scramble for cash would result in mass selloffs in everything but if the margin requirements are graduated over several months it could be quite orderly. But how to insure that the mad money stays in circulation and we don't get deflation?

Actually, you have a pretty good idea there. Hiking the margin requirements will certainly take the speculative steam out of commodities. Oil back to $40, silver @ $12. Quite possible you have clued in to what would be a very effective Gov't strategy. Lots of speculators would be crushed...

So to speak. Bought ZSL Friday and this morning and sold this afternoon for a small % gain. Looking for trades now and then until we get the final frenzy (IMO) at which point I'll load up with ZSL and hold.

Silver trading up another .83% tonight after a ridiculous runup Friday. Momentum nuts chasing an instrument until it collapses on them. I love it when "pundits" base an argument on a 31-yr-old $50 high and estimate current value on inflation adjustment for a completely, insanely inflated top...

Jeez.. a GS'er going to jail? How can that be? Oh, right - he stole FROM GS. If he'd stolen FOR GS he'd get a nice gov't appointment.