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i think the negative savings rate says it all. people can afford their gizmos and the appearance of stability, but they're digging deeper into debt to do so. personally my healthcare and accounting costs have doubled in the last 5 years. how many people are sacrificing their coverage to...

i'm sure it feels good to be special. most americans aren't as intelligent as you, and maintaining a consistent standard of living is unrealistic at <= 2-3% a year

giuliani is the closest one to gw out there right now in terms of seeming like an authoritarian, dishonest douchebag i wouldn't put it past the country to get itself stuck with another douchebag for 8 years. i'm thinking they almost certainly will

did you know borat used to be a goldman quant? i read that the other day, cracked me up seriously, without their political connections and capital base, goldman would just be a bunch of nerdy kids mixed in with moral deviants. they wouldn't make a dime at retail

cool. i just logged out and back, looks ok here too

looks down over here, anybody know the situation

wonder how makloda's short is workin out

also this report which is available on the gata site http://www.gata.org/files/CheuvreuxGoldReport.pdf it details some of the ways the central banks are misrepresenting reserve amounts

it tilts trading massively in favor of the larger players with access to more leverage

it's pretty f-ed up that we've gotten into this cycle between republicans and democrats of who can screw up the country more in a way that will materialize during other party's term

it seems like you've been trying to establish that because cheney didn't explicitly express an expectation of 'losing', the fact that he said going in would result in a quagmire doesn't equate to enough foreknowledge of the current situation to question whether this was an intended result...

if that's the last leg you have to stand on, you can keep it you're correct. the president and vice president never announced an intention to 'lose' in iraq. imagine the quagmire we'd be in if they hadn't forseen the consequences of their actions...

i've actually exercised a good amount of restraint towards you here but all i'm getting in return is your narcissistic prattle you act like i'm dodging your stupid questions lol. cheney clearly said that iraq would be a quagmire if we went to baghdad. that's what he believed before the war...

i should have picked up some more metal on that dip

the US govt is up to its eyeballs in manipulative unethical fraud here. it seems like the message is ... don't fight us, we will steal right in front of your faces before we will let the markets correct in any meaningful way

lol, if any previous month can be adjusted by such massive margins as is frequently the case, why would anybody pay attention to the number at all? doesn't that make the releases sort of.... meaningless from a policy making perspective?

i'm not trying to get on your case, but what did you think when jimmy page collaborated with puff daddy - or aerosmith and run dmc? i'm not referring to those 2 songs, but there really is more to it than the corporate crap that infests every genre of art and life in general these days as...

that really sucks, but i guess there's no rule that says exchanges exist to serve the public interest or provide a fair and transparent place to trade (nobody's saying there is - just thinking aloud). exchanges are in the business of misrepresenting liquidity.. more and more it seems

this is some really interesting testimony to the committe on financial services on "The Alarming Parallels Between 1929 and 2007" (just posted on another board) it's a little long, but really good stuff http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_alarming_parallels_between_1929_and_2007

i've been thinking about doubling up with esignal if i can get a solid discount as an IB customer they're a lot more proactive about adding exchanges too