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Is your government finding it harder and harder to raise taxes, but still has many citizens who hardly get any handouts? How can you expect these citizens to keep voting for increased government if they are not getting any of the loot? Here's how you can solve this problem, sue the bejebbers...

Open an account at one of the big institutions and buy and sell 1 share of stock a whole lot of times. Maybe find a broker with some sort of automatic trading program. You'll rack up huge commissions. Also, short low-volume stock during market hours, then buy it back after hours for...

I'd like to see regressive taxes. Basically, everybody pays exactly the same amount of money (a fee, not a precentage) to the feds. :D Then, you get to keep all of each and every extra dollar you make.

One giant, bright red warning flag is their first page that tells you why having plenty of money is good. Does anybody really need to learn this? It's interesting to note that the scammers appear to be targeting people less and less familiar with the markets, as the pool of some-what...

I would say he DEFinately deserves a big fat bonus. Thanks a bunch for all your help, def!

Heh, I love to put my finger on things on the screen, and I end up with a screenful of hudge smudges. To clean it up, I'll use plain water first, with a cotton rag. Then (if I am feeling ambitious, or we will be watching a movie on my PC) Windex and a good papertowel to finish.

30! equals about 266 million trillion trillion (~2.65528598*10^32), or about how much money I have lost in the market on my worst days :D. Somebody else will have to generate all those combinations and see which ones have letters in the right boxes.

If this were really true, that the PPT was dumping billions trying to keep the markets afloat, then found out they couldn't - that'd be the short opportunity of a lifetime.

HAPPY NEW YEAR ELITE!! Don't forget to do your year's end tax stuff (I've got a pile of dog food to run to the pound today for a nice deduction).

Should anybody believe that it's still 50-50 here's an experiment we can do where I will nearly always win. We'll use a billion doors in our experiment. The person who thinks it's even chances will be Monty, and pick one door between 1 and a billion (inclusive), then send that number to...

Heh, that's what I thought at first. But the truth is that your odds if you stay with your original choice are 1 in 3, whereas your odds if you switch are 2 in 3. So you should switch. And this is my 100th post :D.

Here’s one that has fooled some pretty bright people (took me a while to understand it). Imagine that there is a game show with three doors in front of you (all are closed). Behind one door is the real prize and behind the other two are losers. You pick a door. The host opens a...

The way I figured it out was: Card1 is Side1 of W and Side2 of W Card2 is Side1 of W and Side2 of R Card3 is Side1 of R and Side2 of R So, the unique possibilities are: Draw1: Card1 Side1 (W) Draw2: Card1 Side2 (W) Draw3: Card2 Side1 (W) Draw4: Card2 Side2 (R) Draw5: Card3 Side1...

Wow. CNBC and the WSJ both report that not only are dividends unimportant, they are actually detrimental. I don't think even the PPT will be able to support this house of cards much longer.

Now there's a curious strategy. Gold is the textbook inflation hedge, buy it and watch it go up (or rather, watch the dollar fall against it). But against deflation?? Isn't the standard hedge against deflation to have lots of cash that essentially increases in value every day?

Geez, another member of Big Ball Bearing out pedaling this hype. Everybody knows about the Ball Bearing Bubble, baby. It's gonna bust any day now - and when it does it will take the rest of the market down the drain with it.:D

For years I've wished that we uploaded OSes to some sort of EEPROM so when we fire up a computer, the OS is already in core, and just copied to RAM, rather than all this loading from disk crap. My computer would be up by the time my monitor warmed up :D. And, a few days ago, I got out an old...

Here's a neat idea to help you understand things like this. Take a big jar of pennies, and throw them up in the air. Remove all the tails, and throw the rest up in the air. Repeat until you have only 2 or three coins left. Take one of those pennies out and toss it in the air. Do you expect...

Yeah, investors pretty much cannpt deduct expenses (unless they hit that 2% limit). My wife works at an accounting place, and I talked to one of their tax pros. He did the research and let me know this miserable piece of news.:mad:

You don't need to do a year of study, just spend a few minutes in thought. Suppose there really was some system that would enable one to make money playing craps, and it was being widely disseminated - such that you had a copy. Which of the following two choices would you (as Casino Lord)...