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    "Permanent job loss" fallacy. There is no permanent job loss!

    *All* the money that gets sent to China from the US for imports is in US$. Foreigners in the end can only spend US$ in the... US! So the money always comes back in equal amounts as either investment (lowering cost of capital in US, therefore more economic activity, therefore more jobs!), or as...
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    "Permanent job loss" fallacy. There is no permanent job loss!

    Many people here seem to fear some kind of scenario where unemployment will have to rise permanently in the West. Couple of years ago it offshoring was the culprit, now the recession. Both offshoring and the recession have nothing to do with rising permanent unemployment I will argue...
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    What would you do?

    Agree, when I was 18, there was still plenty to discover in my own area, regarding girls, party etc. A few years later, and...
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    What would you do?

    that´s why some people live in a trailerpark and others don´t ;)
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    What would you do?

    If you organize your life in a good way, you can enjoy life for at least 10 years while trying a lot of businesses starting on a shoestring or with outside investor's money.
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    Being happy with life....

    what do you think, lurefo?
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    Being happy with life....

    I have never seen a certified nlp practicioner, however i have seen a psychotherapist using many elements of this theory, and also I have read the books, mainly with the goal of improving my trading results (maybe it helped). Usually, people would use nlp to gain "something", for example...
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    Being happy with life....

    Personally, I am not that happy with NLP. I´d rather solve underlying issues first, beforing applying the bandaid (nlp mind tricks).
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    Suppose you know you are an idiot, what profession should you choose?

    I guess start out some place you fancy, hold on, and then hopefully you will get a break one day.
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    What if we STRUCTURALLY have more people than there are jobs?

    rephrase that please? ps. also that comment from someone saying that "there is not a lack of jobs, it's that wages are too high" makes more sense.
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    What if we STRUCTURALLY have more people than there are jobs?

    This question is a non-question. there's nothing different between industry getting more productive, and agriculture getting more productive since 10,000 or more years ago. what will happen with more productivity> a richer nation as a whole. more jobs in the tertiary sector, especially leisure.
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    Staying Healthy

    interesting discussion! i like to believe that for researching the best diet, you need to research what was the main diet mankind evolutionized upon. also, it´s quite difficult to follow if you eat in restaurants every day.. indian restaurants seem to be the only real option here.
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    Is talent required to be a top chess player?

    Your kind of people make great cannonfodder for brokers. This is not pointed at you personally, I am sure you are great traders, but for the majority of people: only fools keep doing something with the same bad results.
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    How to tell what price a stock is going to open at

    the level at which the overnight futures are trading gives an estimation depending on the correlation of your stock with the stock index futures.
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    Starting Out, Anyone give me a hand?

    why change a winning team, why not continue what you are doing; move from bucket shop to oanda, still similar to bucketshop, but not as advanced as hotspotfx etc.
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    Characteristics of a Successful Trader

    I read somewhere for being happy you ideally have 3 things: 1)enjoying the good life (ferrari) 2)doing things you love (trading) 3)meaning in life (giving back to society)
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    The 4 stages of single women in NYC

    lol i see where you are coming from. replace "woman" by "trading opportunity" and you go a long way. my 2 cents: k.i.s.s., just stick to the women a few years younger than yourself (unless something special comes up of course).
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    So much for Global Warming

    what's up with the secrecy? please enlighten us already about the real cause of global warming. i am not going to read some UN documents unless i have some reason to. i wont laugh, promise!
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    Check out Farley and his take on the stinking black boxes

    what a crybaby, volatility will come down more than anyone of you is asking for after this fundamentally induced mess is over.
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    Future and Opportunity of Investment Banking

    starting with 57, ending up with 15 after 2 years.. any idea where those 43 guys could have gone?
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