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The dinner buffet table was long and wide in 2008. The financial world , sloth like and idiotic regarding leveage, value and liquidity was not immune to huge loss. The pension funds, Insurance portfolios, endowments, high net worth investors and banks have been made whole and clean again . I...

Wasnt it Bernanke that said he could stop inflation in 15 minutes.? I am curious as to what the mechanics of this would be. I dont know. Seize reserves short term? Bump overnight rate? Thanks.

Anything can happen. Goldilocks 2014 for long stocks and short bonds ? Why not. Higher inflation expectations and real rates on going for months now . Rates are not close To high enough to de-rail stocks , and are a tailwind IMO, historically that is. CPI is all that counts. Forget basket of...

Op, Are you Jamie Dimon?

I hear that by spread trading stocks in the same industry, the industry can underperform the benchmark(maybe SPY) and the performance of the benchmark itself can be poor while you own the spread. All that going wrong and you can still profit with your spread. What i would like to do is take...

Nice thread. I will be listening.

Isnt the fed mandated to support the US real estate market? I think so. Yellen is the decider.

It has been about 10 years since i have purchased any IBD online products. They can help you see what doing well in the stock market if that is your issue. They organize and sell volumes of research and data in a peicemeal fashion. You can bet when you buy a couple of nice features you will...

With all the money in the world and a tiny percentage of collateral backing it how else can money be made without cash settled contracts. What secures swaps? Wheres Martin? Oh wait, the mainstreet taxpayer? Margin / bond posted due by April 15th in the US.

SIUYA, I think you made a good point a while back. Limit orders to open do ensure you are in on all the bad ones AND some explosive moves never get filled. Thats a nice reminder to me. Oft times that big green daily bar after a global event is no " trick" and means get the hell...

Scat , were you not a mutual fund manager that won a national competition against some big swinging dicks in the 90's? There are indeed some people the OP can get advice from here.

"No connection with the server" Using the ichart interface. Maybe they are hard at work improving this free interface for the thousands of People that download a thousand historical symbols daily. Maybe.

Heaven is red shifted in the electromagnet spectrum and is indeed expanding. Gods plan is to allow billions of human pagans, pre-Jesus into heaven. That of course is dependent on whether these pagans were queer or not. Naturally, it will become easier to exit Purgatory and it is assumed...

I do beleive that has a lot to do with his method of choice. That is not easy to do. And here we are left to fret over a single mouse click. Buy/Sell (1 or 2) Im plunging large tommorrow!

You guys are well ahead of me in these issues. My thoughts are that that tight money and high rates of the 80's were not a good environment for internal participants to make a lot of money. It has been said that financial institutions used to contribute approx 15% of SP 500 earnings and today...

www.dof.ca.gov/html/fs_data/LatestEconData/Chronology/chronology.htm There is nothing here to rate the importance of any of these events. For example the "Plaza Accord" , mentioned on the ACD thread, is treated similarly to a duck flying into a power line causing a CA. brownout. The power...

Central Ohio. By choice?

Thank you , Sir.

So what of the recession of 82. Volker and Reagan are given a lot of credit for "Breaking the back of inflation" by throwing us into a recesssion ( some imply intentionally) Did not simply tight , resposible monetary policy(relatively), along with gov. deficit spending cause severe...

TJ, I am reminded of a fellow Chauncey Gardiner. He too was well respected with an IQ seemingly "off the charts". This is a great thread. Let it be brother.