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Back in 87' we didn't have a housing crisis like we do now, and that is a Huge difference since banks use houses as collateral. Soon the world will grow wise to the FED printing money to keep interest rates suppressed at the Treasury Auctions and things will unravel quickly. Water, Food, and...

We don't need to be in debt to communist--let them sell everything.:eek:

A downside to IB quotes are they aren't at the tick level but consolidated quotes sent out every few milliseconds. That can be a plus in fast moving markets when other feeds lag though.

Gartman has been long the big name stocks and short the broader market in equal units, but net short not too long ago. He's also long gold and some other commodities. He seems to be a smart guy but time will tell.

I was at a Seattle mall on Black Friday and had no problem finding a parking spot--not a good sign.

The Turtle system still works if you have the emotional control to do it. Same with any system.

Dubai will put the screws to the debt holders now. This was all planned. It does shine a light on the health of the worldwide debt markets though.

Living in the same house but underwater by 50%. QUOTE]Quote from lasner: Where is this original poster now! Real Estate Rolling along...hahaha

If banks don't loan deposits what do they loan _______? Electronic credits would prevent people from withdrawing their cash if the credits were required to be kept in a US bank (eliminate bank runs on the Fed system as a whole). No money under the mattress or cash only society possible...

Admittedly the West coast is the nicer of the two, but isn't CA double mortgaged already?

Lincoln and Kennedy both supposedly got on the Fed's wrong side.

It appears regional banks weren't the start of the next crisis but Dubai!

The end is near...:(

This is the Economics forum, not the intra-day scalping forum, go harass those guys for being off topic. Banks aren't lending and are trying to get rid of deposits...the loan requirements are very tight now which eliminates a lot of business. So even with zero interest rates the banks...

You've shifted risk farther out on the bell curve but assumed more magnitude of risk doing it, thus 11 months of profits in the friendly 97% of the curve, and a large loss on the tail. Unless you sell mis-priced premium, or have an edge, it's possible you'll break-even before commissions in the...

China's GDP growth is bogus--how can a country that relies heavily on exports, and then lose significant portions of those export markets, still keep growing? Only by spending its own internal reserves or borrowing money, and that's not productivity. When China falls on its face all these...

I agree, mixing suspense and conspiracy with leftist ideas.

I can feel your pain, just don't want to personally experience it.

It seems a lot of the popular WSJ articles are locked anyways, except for a couple paragraphs, without a subscription. How will he feed people to these pay articles?

The market moves when GS says so!!