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A friend of mine in NJ has a generator that runs on natural gas. His family and friends gave him a lot grief about it when he put it in a few years ago, calling it a huge waste of money... They're all over at his house right now. Of course, he expected a sincere apology from each one before he...

There are no journalists left in this country. There is no objectivity. All the so-called journalists are advocates and news spinners, not real reporters.

I'm not sure how 170k is "strong job creation" for the month. According to the Labor Department, the economy has to create an average of 150k jobs each month just to keep up with new people entering the workforce. Twenty-thousand net job creation per month is a run-rate of 240k per year which is...

The number of people who are no longer counted as unemployed (even though they clearly are unemployed, but have given up looking for work or have managed to get onto disability) dwarfs the number people who have found jobs. That makes the unemployment percentage number meaningless because...

The biggest scandal is the blantant corruption at the department of energy, but nobody cares. ========================================= http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/11/13/how-obama-s-alternative-energy-programs-became-green-graft.html In March 2011, for example, the GAO...

Clever spin. He knows most people don't care about "coverups." A coverup is a lie; but somehow an acceptable lie.

The only reason unemployement has come down at all is because of the massive increase in people on disability who are no longer counted as unemployed. =============================...

As the Treasury Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs, Lael Brainard made several strong public statements against the FTT (including at the G-20 meeting last summer), saying that most of the FTT tax burden would end up on retail investors and not financial institutions. Last I heard she was...

Romney has a good chance for an upset win, but it's too close to call. (Last time I checked, London bookmakers posted Obama as a 2-1 favorite.) Republicans will maintain control of the House of Representatives for another two years. The Senate will end up close to a 50-50 split, so...

That's the bottom line: One election is all it takes to impose the FTT and put us all out of business. Vote wisely.

My 11-year old just grounded me. No TV for a week.

I apologize for posting on subject, but since the OP referred to Rove's prediction, perhaps some would find it relevant that Rove has now changed his mind. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204846304578090820229096046.html?mod=WSJ_hps_sections_opinion Quote from Karl Rove:"My...

Study by Dutch Central Bank. Referenced at: http://financialtransactiontaxes.com/ “The DCB opposes the introduction of a European financial transaction tax that it estimated would cost the nation’s lenders, pension funds and insurers about 4 billion euros ($5.2 billion) and hurt...

Dutch agree to FTT only if pensions exempt. Unlikley that other EC-10-FTT would agree to this. Would cut FTT revenues by 40-50%.

One solution is to repeal Obamacare, but perhaps there are other solutions. This is a problem that has to be solved. There are tens of millions of people (voters) who have paid into the system for decades and expect to receive benefits. This probem is going to get solved one way or another...

This isn't about Romney or Romneycare. It's about the irrefutable fact that doctors, in ever-increasing numbers, are refusing to see medicare patients and nobody's doing anything about it.

My dad, who lives in California, received notices from two of his doctors last week saying they were no longer accepting medicare patients. I asked one of my neighbors, a physician, about it. He said he loses money on most medicare patients and it was just a matter of time before his office...

One of the great moments in "gun control" history. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5dT3r_oHoo

That's especially true in my home state of California. It doesn't matter how much money they have, they always spend more. That's why the state of California and most of the major cities are burried in debt and teetering on the brink of insolvency. Despite having the 4th highest per-capita...

I was considering voting third party, but as someone who trades for a living there's too much at stake right now. Democrats are pushing two financial transaction tax (FTT) bills in the House of Representives. If either one passed it would put me out of business. I'm no fan of Romney or the...