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Politicians at their worst - spending other people's money to bribe people into voting for them. At least no one in Congress bothered to waste their time listening to him, judging by the empty seats in the video.

I have a new ETF idea. It's called iShortCramer. For a small 1% tracking fee, we will buy everything he recommends selling, and short everything he recommends buying.

Thanks a lot. I just became active in the ET community, and so far I'm very encouraged by the people and comments here to continue doing so. A lot of breadth and relative depth considering it's a free and open forum. If you know of or can suggest other places to hash out the issues, I'd...

Nope, but I'm always up for learning about interesting people :)

Yes, very good. I laughed. Although I will admit I'm reminded of a certain scene in "The Smartest Guys in the Room" about a certain company's traders laughing at turning off granny's heating. Let's just hope traders never get the power to initiate earthquakes..

Thanks for the pointers. Kirby has an interesting theory about why treasury yields are so low: http://www.financialsense.com/contributors/rob-kirby/the-extinction-of-the-bond-vigilantes. Not sure how true his assumptions are (1. that bond vigilantes view the Shadow Stats inflation figure as...

I would hope anyone with USD cares, let alone bond traders, seeing as how the Fed has become the world's largest in the U.S. Treasury market.

What exactly is going on with the Fed? According to Bloomberg, the Fed sees 'little need now for further bond purchases': http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-03-07/fed-officials-signal-little-need-now-for-further-bond-purchases.html After reading the article, I don't see any such clear...

China is not going away, but at some point it's growth path is going to be categorically different from that of the past whether Beijing likes it or not. Estimates (http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2010/11/17/chanos-vs-china/) put the Chinese economy at 60% fixed-capital investment, 25% of which...

This comment was amusing :) What's not amusing is the reality of the comment :(

I tend to agree with you, but.. take a look at mortgage debt to GDP figure in the attached chart by Steven Keen, referenced in the article before. According to him, Australian housing debt has eclipsed even that of the United States. On the other hand, if you trust Wikipedia and the CIA...

Don't know about Warren County, Va., but you ever been to the south end of Chicago? Don't take the red line at sunset and try hiking it to University of Chicago - that's a mistake I'll never make again.

With Australia's raw-material export economy intrinsically linked to China's, and Australian real estate prices (http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/36294.html) reaching past US valuations at their peak, how much longer before this bubble bursts? AUD/USD prices can't be helping their manufacturing...

I'm not an options pricing expert, if that sort of thing even exists in reality, but what you say makes sense. If there is a cash flow to the investor, I say count that as a return, just like you would for a change in the spot value of the underlying asset.

Can we please cut non-productive expenditures for once, and consider paying down the debt or at least reallocating some of that towards capital investments like infrastructure and education? I don't understand this (economic) logic. The real drains on our budget are PRIMARILY concentrated in...

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There's a reason the impact has not been felt yet - it's not a be-all end-all solution. Particle deposition technology is as old as the first integrated circuits made in semiconductor fabs. That technology is highly customized and highly optimized. Just look at how much Intel's new Arizona...

The Economist is British.

I'd like the U.S. economy to do better as much as the next person - in terms of employment, balance of trade, and total output. But I'm also extremely wary of "forcing" investment, let alone spending (especially the consumer kind) by government fiat. If the market doesn't want something, it...

You better go find $40,000. And if that's all you have, I don't recommend gambling it all away on a futures account. Depending on the minimum tick size of a contract, you can be wiped out in less than a day if the market goes against you.