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I know educated people who actually believe that terrorists attack US tagets only because they're jealous of American prosperity and freedom. This is insane. Consider 9/11. Claiming that 19 people worked together on an intricate plan for months so that they could give up their lives just...

P/E 3.7 . A lot of bad news is already in the share price. Will probably get worse until they come up with a comeback strategy though.

Socialism works just fine in some countries. Has for a while now.

It will end up being QE 2.1 after the haggling. It's about Obama fighting for the little guy against the evil rich.

It's an election ploy to make the R's look like assholes.

The Church is powerless and irrelevant. Prayer solves nothing. The general population of any true democracy should determine its nation's fate. The people of Britain are not obliged to save the world but they are obliged to save themselves. All bona fide Brits should be guaranteed access to...

I voted 'yes' because I believe it's a possibility. The Roman Empire is still with us in the form of the Catholic church. The Brits' military empire may be still in the process of transforming into a financial empire.

Agreed - democracy isn't equal distribution of wealth.. but it isn't intense concentration of wealth either. Concentration of wealth is the #1 cause of depressions; it causes economies to freeze up - as we are seeing happening in The U.S. and other free market economies today. You're 30...

1) "free markets" are not free. Free markets inevitably result in the concentration of wealth in the hands of a priviledged minority. 2) "free markets" are anti-democratic. The notion that democracy and unrestrained commerce are necessarily linked or even compatible is naive. 3) The new...

Patterns exist because the variables that determine price movements and the relations among those variables tend to change in patterned ways. The trader who can identify the variables and the manner in which their effects will change with price changes with > 50% frequency will profit. When a...

If it isn't a stock chart it's either generated by biased instructions that tend to compromise the effects of whatever randomness was built into the generator or it was picked from a large number of RW charts because it resembles a stock chart. My guess is that it's an RW; the back-and-fills...

Randomness at what level of existence? If randomness as epistemological then randomness is inevitable because in a system as complex and riddled with approximate knowns as is the markets we can never know the way all the variables will interact; we're lucky if we can even know the descriptions...

There's an ontological difference between truth and fact; it may be that 'there are no facts' is a truth.

..if only because it doesn't make sense. If you're a bad person and come back as a chipmunk how can you develop good or bad chipmunk karma in preparation for your next incarnation?

If so we have a continuation formation - Dow 9000 minimum move.

SPY sitting right on RSI 50 and Stochastics 50. Looks like a this coil could break either way. Anybody have any strong feelings about how the market will break next week.

A corporation is a "person" under the law. Like other persons in a given economy corporations benefit from an integrated infrastructure that can't exist in the absence of taxation such as roads, sewage systems, policing, judicial systems, etc.

The problem with this is that the number of places where opportunity exists that will accept immigrants is dwindling. Definitely, the U.S. is a titular democracy at best; it's really a plutocracy - at all levels of government.

Too simplistic. Did today's billionaires invent the monetary system? If we didn't live in a cooperative society there would be no wealth; we'd still be cavemen. People in positions of advantage can play the system and reap disproportionate benefits from the social cooperative. When a...

Checked out the neighborhoods you listed and they're beautiful. Why is the house cited in the opening of this thread so cheap then?