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There's still a perception that all these greedy traders and brokers are ripping everyone off. For that you can thank the administration of Barry Obamy. Meanwhile there's consolidation in this industry everywhere.

It seems like if you're a business which must make reports to the government, it's damned if you do, and damned if you don't . Cause you know they're going to find something, real or not. What is the cost of noncompliance in that situation?

To this part time trader, it's more about debt than housing.

Talk like this is starting to get me excited and thinking we might be in another bubble. I have at least one flaw to postulate , and it has to do with the rather large amount of student debt outstanding. There will be a day of reckoning for this as well as inflated tuition and professors...

Interesting topic in light of the sale of yahoo, which I know little about either.

As I remember from the reading, the tulip thing went on for many years, thus giving the movement credibility in people's minds

I guess I have to credit the late Jim Williams of the Williams Inference Service for teaching me how to read the news. Otherwise I'll be in trouble with the heavens. It seems rather simple once someone spells it out for you, but you could spend years scratching your head if no one told you. For...

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And if the President of Turkey is involved in a coup attempt, buy gold. I should have mentioned this earlier. .

This kind of reminds me of when I was a teenager and Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated. Everyone used to call him Duke for short. Boy, you should have seen the straw hit the side of the outhouse after that! Kind of miss him sometimes, that guy.

Let me guess. The options must have been mispriced.

:vomit::vomit::vomit:. Nice 80s schlocky Hoffer video. Please someone help! I've fallen and I can't get out of this thread!

Who says traders have a sick sense of humor?

Oh no.

I can't believe I wasted the last 15 minutes of my life reading this thread. I guess it's like a car crash. No matter if you tell yourself you're not gonna look, you do anyway.

Well I'm not picking on you and its your biz anyway. Just calling into question the business model. Makes me wonder about others, perhaps Facebook, though I know little about how they generate revenue. Google seems safe, but maybe there are some short candidates here. Seems like there would be...

Doesn't this sort of prove a point? If blocking the obnoxious ads is that easy, maybe that's why these sites are struggling. The idea was supposed to be that if you are a business looking to advertise, you can connect more closely with your target audience. It's Modern Tribalism. You connect...

According to UBS, their clients are holding very very high amounts of cash, even though they feel the economy is basically healthy.

Bad news comes out, the market rallies. Believe the market. Recently Sp rallied hard in the midst of Brexit chaos, to just below recent highs. Strength, strength strength.

If good news comes out, and the market sells off, believe the market.