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You're a complete moron, as are many of the other responders to your original post. Perhaps you'd like to familiarize yourself with even a fact or two. Here's a link to DeSantis's letter of resignation: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/25/opinion/25desantis.html In the letter, he...

You need to go back and review that thread, so that you have a clue as to Cramer said, and what I said about Cramer. What you did was make an emotional post, just as you have here, with little regard for the facts. That's your modus operandi. Are you female? Speaking for myself, I'm not...

What a complete moron you are. You're always on the uninformed side of an issue, to include this one. Perhaps someone needs to explain to you how investment banks pay. They pay through the combination of salary and bonus. Small salaries, in order to keep overhead down. They pay bonuses...

For what it's worth, I'm a Viet Nam vet with some service-connected injuries. I have Blue Cross (with a high deductible) and have been to the VA for treatment. When I have gone to VA, they always bill Blue Cross. Although they have always billed late, and therefore Blue Cross turns them...

Last time we had an uptick rule, it didn't apply to ETFs. But it may well be different this time. OldTrader

Foreclosure has to do with state law, so it differs from state to state. But regardless of where it is, it's a function of what the statutory process is. It's just a matter of time. Take California for instance. The borrower misses his first payment. The bank sends a notice, and lets some...

I would think that the wrong "politics", or perhaps better said as the wrong philosophy, ultimately leads to your own demise, regardless of your acumen. I think Atlas Shrugged covers this concept well. Politics is the practical extension of philosophy. I think we are all discovering that...

i think it's obvious that Rand would not have supported the bailouts. Bailouts have no place in a capitalistic society. Frankly though your list of "men of the mind" is amusing. Both Soros and Buffet are ultra liberal, big government proponents. Rand on the other hand thought that...

Evidently you've forgotten her fictional character, Midas Mulligan.....a banker....and financier of some of the other characters in her novel, Atlas Shrugged. No society thrives without banks. And I'm certain that Rand would agree. Now whether she would agree with the FED, or some of the...

Your criticisms notwithstanding, Mark Cook is one of the traders interviewed in Stock Market Wizards. Won several trading championships, I used to read stuff by him in Barrons regularly back in the 70s and 80s. On the other hand, I never heard of you. LOL! I wonder who has more...

Proportionality, meaning that Dodd just has a "little" indiscretion when he is paid off in a property deal for a Congressional favor, and therefore we should overlook it, because Bush was guilty of something in the years prior. LOL. Yeah, I love the logic man. OldTrader

Evidently your point here is that if there was a "wrong" before, we should therefore overlook every wrong that follows. Is that about it? If Bush had made this property deal what would your reaction have been? My guess is any "shadiness" on the part of Bush produced "indignation" from...

Exactly. What the leftists did was pass the Community Reinvestment Act, which mandated, amongst other things, higher percentages of home ownership, higher percentages of ownership in certain areas, even if the qualifications of the borrower were questionable. No one required the hedge funds...

The only way to determine which is better, lease or buy, you gotta know the numbers, which you haven't provided. That said, it's rare that a lease is better than a buy. And, depending on the amount of the purchase, the entire thing can be written off on your taxes in the year of purchase...

I think you put the low in with your post. OldTrader

Thought you might find this interesting. I reviewed the US Customer Agreement, and the Canadian Customer Agreement (since my understanding is that TraderNik is a Canadian). I was unable to find any clauses of the type that TraderNik refers to, involving IB's responsibilities to it's...

The problem here is that you obviously have no clue how the law works. There are certain regulatory requirements set forth by the NASD, the SEC, and the CFTC regarding brokerage accounts. You, as a customer, can't make an agreement with a brokerage firm that would violated some of these...

50 shares? Geezus, if you bought it at $40 all you could lose is $2K. LOL. That said, you do know it's a bear market, right? OldTrader

You don't have a "definitive answer" to the question. Please see my prior post regarding this. OldTrader

You got a link to something about this "accident"? I would gather that at least some readers might know that you post many anti-IB posts, and that therefore, we might need some sort of outside, indpendent verification of your claims. OldTrader