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This would be a practical solution to attain sustainable economic growth, without the boom bust cycles, and growing gov. revenues. The only problem is most Americans are too dumb to appreciate the wisdom of this approach. We are now the Obamamation. Pragamatism has now taken a backseat to the...

Unfortunatlly, this is where the USA is headed due to burdensome taxation. The US has the highest CAPital gains tax in the industrialized world. The recent election of Obama illustrates that we have a mass population of voters who think it is moraly OK to vote themselves entitlements and...

I beleive the difference between fiscally sound states and states who are circuling the bowl fianancially can be attributed to social Idealism versas practical realism. Social idealist believe that there are an endless ammount of rich people who they can tax to fianace their socialist wet...

In fairness to Arnold, he did try to pass a constitutional admendment to cap state spending based on a formula of population growth and inflation. Had this been in place 4 years ago the state would actually have a surplus! The voters of CA actually shot this proposition down. Go figure? A law...

As bad as those numbers look, I suggest the numbers are overly optimistic. California alone has raised its budget deficit projection several times from $4 billion, to $8 billion, to $14 billion, and that is just for fiscal year 2009. The California 2010 deficit is now projected to be $25...

Random, You are right. I did not know of this. But social security is a socialised insurance policy for us citizens. My IRA account is my private property. Sadly, I believe that many Americans would forfeit their private accounts for the illusion of a gov. sponsored retirement guaranty. For...

I doubt seriously that this will ever happen, although I do not doubt that the Dems will try. It will be interesting to see how many congressmen and senators will vote for such a confiscation of private wealth. If this were to become law I believe it would lead to armed revolt, a call to arms...

I guess they are not. No reply.

Anyone currently trading @ this firm? Any thoughts or comments?

I lay the fault where the fault is due, and clearly much of the fault is with Barney Frank, Christopher Dodd, Byron Dorgan, Kent Conrad. These guys are the Constitutionaly elected officers who oversee the nations banking and finance industry. As recently as 2 years ago Frank insisted that the...

It is outright journalistic malpratice that this fact has gone underreported by the mainstream media. Anyone who has some understanding of the seperation of powers clearly knows who the obvious culprits are here: the US Senate Banking and finance committee, and the US house banking & finance...

Sure, we have a first admenment right to express ourselves, and this includes opinions about stocks. I'm not dismissing wholesale that a crime was committed here. But the Gov's broad edict regarding what it considers "rumor" warrants scrunity

http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/providerarticle.aspx?feed=OBR&date=20080713&id=8886927 My question is this: Where is the fine line between what the Gov. considers "rumor" and the right to make an opinion on a stock in an open forum? It just may be that the concerns voiced about...

A major factor in the run-up in oil prices is the fact that the world economy has expanded hugely in the past 16 years, and there has been no effort-at least in the US-to secure more supply to fuel futher growth. Outside the US-in Russia,Norway, Mexico, Venezuela- we have seen a trend toward...

macd crossover @ 5min interval is what I strive for.

We do need a US president who can strong-arm congress into passing a balanced budget, or will simply refuse to sign an unbalanced one. If congress refuses to go along, I see nothing wrong with a goverment shut-down untill a true balanced budget is passed. After-all, a Goverment shut-down would...

Regulators would care, however, regardless of whether individual investors have concerns. In fact, Reg NMS modified a 1997 regulation by lowering from 20% to 5% the ceiling on average daily volume of any given stock that ATSs are permitted to represent before being required to disclose...

Just wait till news of this fully hits the news wires: http://www.mwilliams.info/archive/2008/04/bakken-formation-oil-field.php There is enough oil here to fully pay off the national debt of the USA!

http://www.energyandcapital.com/aqx_p/4209? I guess we have not reached peak oil after all!

another excellent post libertad! The sub-llc model is a target to the big gureillas in the securities industry. Brokerages hate them because they offer better cost and comparable service. Hedge funds hate them because they have to pay premiun prices for securities that prop traders detect...