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<i>He noted entitlements, such as Medicare and Medicaid, were a smaller share of spending in the U.S. than in other countries.</i> He failed to not that defense spending dwarfs that of any other country on earth and nobody but Ron Paul really wants to cut it. <i>Geithner said the chances...

I don't know that there will be hyperinflation but I will not be at all surprised to see inflation at the 8 - 12% a year level. That will be enough to wipe out my sister on her fixed income pension and millions of other people in a similar situations. I gnash my teeth when I hear our...

That's true in America, and no doubt in other parts of the world. But apparently Israelis think differently.

How do you handle the other side of the problem -- the underlying index goes up and up and up and wipes out your bear call credit spread? That's actually been a greater danger for iron condor sellers since the bull market began in 2009.

As the previous poster said, you would normally be better off selling the calls to get the intrinsic value plus whatever time value they have. But suppose the market is perverse and the bid is below the intrinsic value of the call. Is there a way a cash strapped trader can force the market to...

Caricature George W. Bush as a chimpanzee, funny political commentary. (http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/images/blbushchimpanzee.htm) Do the same for Obama, and you're a racist and the NAACP will demand your resignation...

Food and energy are excluded from "core CPI", but not from the CPI. I-pads are included in both "core CPI" and "CPI". You can see that our government has its priorities straight.

I have no idea what you mean by this, unless you believe that gold will go down so far that I will get a capital loss. There are two problems with this theory: 1. My average cost for gold is under $500. So gold will have to go down an awful lot before I lose money on it. 2. The maximum...

That seems an apt description of her views. She says that if Jews assimilate with Christians she'd have to be fucked by the goyim, a prospect she obviously found distasteful.

But she doesn't want to miscegenate with you goyim.

I agree. The problem isn't guns, it's that this guy did *not* really know gun safety.

If non-Americans had to put up with 8 years of George W. Bush and 4 years of Obama they'd need pain killers too.

I'm somewhat surprised to see that my second biggest expense is food (not counted in core CPI). For the record, my federal & state income taxes plus my property taxes are about 50% more than what I spend on food, clothing, utilities, home maintenance, insurance, transportation, and charitable...

OMG, the most politically incorrect sport ever invented!

What happened exactly? I use IB, and while TWS sometimes has annoying glitches I haven't experienced serious problems (after I fixed a hardware problem on my end).

Core CPI excludes food and energy. So as long as you don't have to eat, fuel your car, heat your home, or run your refrigerator or computer core CPI is just fine. Core CPI does include housing as a major component, and we can both agree that housing has not been suffering any significant price...

I have to admit that I never anticipated the current rocket ride in the silver price. At present it looks like $50 silver calls could be ITM within a few weeks. It's because I'm no good at anticipating movements like this that I never get those 10 baggers that OTM options can produce.

Houses are bought with high leverage. In a dollar collapse we can expect leveraged assets to decline in value as lenders are unwilling to make loans that will be paid back with worthless dollars. But hard assets like gold that are generally not bought with leverage will go up. It is...

I live for the day when I have your problem.

Politicians create inflation through massive deficits and then blame it on speculators, all the while getting paid off by lobbyists who insist the government keep spending on their pet programs. Good gig if you can get it.