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Americans did this to themselves. They wanted cheap stuff from china, they voted with their wallets and they borrowed and lived beyond their means recklessly. And the mortgaged their grandchildren's future. The guilty party is the person in the mirror.

No president except clinton shrinked our deficit. Why did Bush Jr increase the deficit instead of shrinking it? I thought Republicans were for smaller government less spending

Whoever bought those calls on GS advice is losing big money today. -22.58% loss in one day.

I use options for hedging and reducing volatility. (naked puts to buy stock) (covered calls to set sell limits) None of the puts have been assigned (Due to this rally so far) But I have had stocks called away. Then I turn around and sell puts to get them at a price I want back.

You are asking people to think. Folks to busy watching reality TV and "news" about what Palin did on the weekend on MSNBC or the perpetual Obama is a terrorist from fox. There is no real news anymore.

http://www.streetinsider.com/Analyst+Comments/Goldman+Sachs+Recommends+Buying+GE+(GE)+Calls+Ahead+of+December+Events/5121285.html They are telling the world the 16 call is a cheap buy at 60 cents. "Goldman Sachs is telling client to buy GE (NYSE: GE) calls ahead of GE Capital and 2010...

But I thought a call means you take delivery when you exercise the long call.

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Just curious I wonder at what point will the % of unemployed need to reach before a uprising happens. Similar to what killed other nations in the past. I see lots of parallels between the US and the Ottoman Turk/Roman etc.. empire.

Wont it make sense to sell to close VS taking delivery of stock, paying 3 days interest and taking a risk the stock gaps down on monday.

I manage 100% of it. I do not trust other people with my money. Look what happened to the folks invested with Madoff.

All made in china.

I would live there. Save every penny I can for 5 years.

How is that possible. People used to earn 4 dollars an hour and that was considered a lot of money back in the days. So if we roll the clock back to 1950 salaries, wont goods go back to 1950 prices?

but then a coke would cost 5 cents? if everyone in the US makes minimum wage.

I am not an economist but To me that seems like China is putting a tariff on US goods coming into china. So why is it that Obama does not explicitly point this out? If they artificially depress the Yuan 20% against the dollar, to me that would by the synthetic equivalent to a 20% import...

Do you really think Russia would stop selling oil etc.. This is why they are so rich now. Selling this stuff. To not sell it to the US is counterproductive.

We should not try to help poorer nations when we have poverty on our soil. I would rather see a isolationist/neutral Take care of our own folks policy.

I doubt it. Islam would no longer care about us once we step out of being global cops and let everyone sort it out on the other side (Israel would probably get invaded) We buy resources, just like we buy oil. Countries would still sell us oil etc.. I think all this fear mongering is...

Why? Why would it be bad.