Search results

it's pleasantly surprising that you agree the fed is parasitic if you get it, everybody can :)

why is the country (aka taxpayer) paying interest to finance our govt budget with money the govt creates for free wouldn't it be vastly more cost effective to print our money as needed rather than borrow it at an extra cost to the taxpaying public

how much would 2.4 trillion reduce the value of everyone's existing dollars?

electing a competent leader could be very cost effective. dr paul is a real conservative

did you just figure that out and you're dying to tell the world or what?

interesting comment in a bloomberg piece on jim rogers and the yuan. the pound lost 80% of it's value over the course of losing reserve status. the buck could have a long way further to go

have you ever had to listen to a civilian/private sector defense contractor, worse a really young one, brag to you or someone in the vicinity about their wealth? ridiculous stories what happened to the 6 billion in cash we lost in iraq, or the trillion the pentagon couldn't account for...

i think edges deplete to the point of breakeven transaction costs most of the time. it's really rare to see an edge flat out reverse into a sort of negative expectancy situation over the longer haul - ie once you've stopped trading it

wow check out copper

this is about that guy who named one of his ten yachts 'positive carry' or whatever? isn't he totally underwater now with like half a billion in redemptions frozen? have those positions been liquidated?

if we're truly at risk of a catastrophic run, shouldn't the markets reflect that risk for the benefit of every investor and trader who isn't too big to fail? or do we collectively subsidize the institutions that are too big to fail in effect sustaining and systemically embedding that...

temporary or not, i just don't see what the treasury has to do with diffusing the fallout of citibank's toxic greed. this situation approached us like a glacier. what do all these US economic policy makers suddenly have against free markets?

ty. it's like they're trying to pick the corn out of shit and repackage it as corn :) shit never should have been packaged as corn in the first place what about moody's .. what are people really using to value creditworthiness these days.

markets where any players are too big to fail are intrinsically not free markets. the institutions that willfully entered these leveraged positions have to pay for their risk ... otherwise it will always be bailouts and regulations in place of a free market

it's almost as if he's saying the lack of liquidity doesn't represent the real market... so they're going to manage an intermediate transaction to the conduit and create a new price point to try and fish out some liquidity above what the market currently thinks the paper is worth. how much does...

the support guys insist they can't replicate obvious widespread bugs, then send the user base on wild goose chases trying to debug it. do your jobs! test and debug your product usually i wait weeks before an upgrade. i didn't wait this time and it was definitely a mistake

don't download 8.3 at this point. it's very buggy and the users are stuck doing the beta testing

you said it yourself, middle class is a thing of the past... the significant segment of the population that don't own homes or retirement portfolios are subsidizing the ones who do via inflation. most of us probably know people all across that spectrum... whether they're middle/upper class...

no shit, he was even cleaning up on a fox poll? wow i think all his successful fundraising is helping counteract the msm blackout. i've been noticing very avg ppl noticing him lately

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Cession