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This was exactly what I wondered about as well. Won't this action have bank run effects in Italy, Greece, Spain, France and other southern European shaky financial states. Maybe delayed a bit. And would a ten percent hit in a high tax country like the Netherlands move lots of people into...

I had to think a while what I would say to my own granddaughter. She is two and smart as a whip. She could send text messages to her Aunt at 10 months old. Of course, no one knew what they said. Her Aunt was thrilled. She is a talker and a dancer. I would suggest that she start creating a...

I have heard that the student loan bubble is now being bundled and resold similar to mortgages a few years back - "they" are working on yet another solution for us. Kind of brings a tear to your eye.

If FED and government policy are buying houses and markets, running debt infinitely higher, juggling figures, and telling us everything is fine - go back to sleep; I guess they are working hard on the solution as we speak!

The longest win streak on record is 13 trading sessions, which ended on January 14, 1987 Oh Oh!

Would this be similar to a demographic argument. Perhaps the consumption model is taxed ( pun intended) today because a mass of productive consumers are changing to lower spending habits as they exit the workforce? Perhaps the FED and Obama should promote free love again like in the 60s?

Nutmeg, that was an absolutely astounding document. Thank you. Ideas have been swirling around my head (and yes it is a big head). I have been thinking a lot about implications. I will reply again when they settle a bit more. I propose that 1982ish is when the Inflation wave ended and the...

Isn't this ability ratio told from the velocity of money? Secondly from the 30 year TBond andly other similar "risk free" assets. Operation twist is simply the FED admitting defeat in my view. I distinctly recall a big interview a few years back where Gentle Ben expressed the view that the...

At times, one can learn the most from those we disagree with. If there arguments against one's position are sound, then a smart trader switches sides.

In 1971 when Nixon divorced the financial printing business from gold, did he also divorce government policy from reality as well? There is a huge worldwide underclass of people who are unemployed, may live in mom's basement or with their parents (dependent on someone who will die one day)...

OK Bob. A gold star for you also. I can tell you really trade. This is so obvious to those that keep records that it is hard to believe that people still argue the point.

And today we read "Goldman leads decline as Wall Street commodity revenues plummet" which says in the story this line "Based on Reuters' calculations, revenues at Morgan Stanley's commodity business peaked at around $3 billion in 2008, but have since declined to just over $1 billion last year."...

Yup. Without good intentions we would have no recovery. Come to think of it, with good intentions we would have no recovery. Perhaps they should change economics from the dismal science to the science of good intentions. Wait a minute, isn't there a saying about good intentions and a very...

The more I read, the more I think nutmeg has a great point. Google "explaining the growing inequality in wages across skill levels" for an interesting article. I'm not sure the precise root cause(s), but it seems labour quality changed dramatically in the 1970 and 1980 decades. Robots...

Hmm. Hopeless. Thanks for that chart. It would seem to contradict my research above.

Category 2 or possibly 3.

Great comment. Bang on. There are three ideas on HFT. One is the leave me alone, its no different that 50 years ago. (HFT traders, some actually using legal methods. Although if legal worked, why has there been a huge increase in illegal - enough to get FBI interested?) Two is the "you...

I will bet that this will be the first cut of the 170 million job cuts mentioned in the media. If the crooks were smart they would offer money to the government to look the other way ........ oh wait a minute ....... I wouldn't hold my breath after the fiasco that is called the sub-prime...

I'll bet your book would outsell most option books until they found out it was really about options trading. Spice it up a bit and you may have a best-seller!

I don't mean to offend you (or anyone), just to get to the economic truth as I can understand it. My own first response to your reply was what a silly answer, what can divorce have to do with a major economic change? But I have read past good posts from you, I thought I would check it out...