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    Gold Can’t Beat Checking Accounts 30 Years After Peak

    You are an idiot. YOUR graph PROVES MY point, near $1.80 today equates to $1.00 purchasing power in 1980!! LOL. Plus YOU have forgotten to include the affect of taxes on that checking account interest and-or those S&P dividends, reinvested or distributed doesn't matter. Besides all that YOU...
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    Gold Can’t Beat Checking Accounts 30 Years After Peak

    What was the total money supply when interest rates were at those levels? The real rate of inflation during that period was what? Again, without the actual numbers (assuming they were factual back then) there is no argument, just statements.
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    Gold Can’t Beat Checking Accounts 30 Years After Peak

    Since when do interest rates and-or reinvested dividends keep pace with (or beat) the inflation component? I don't have figures, but I do know 30-years ago $1 had more purchasing power than $1 today. In the real world, and for thousands of years, gold preserves purchasing power, which is...
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    Calls to suspend the 10% penalty tax on withdrawals from retirement accounts

    Not surprising, for the citizenry of the US, this ranks right up there as one of the worst ideas Since near-0% savings interest rates are not enough to squeeze the millions-billions-trillions oh my, out of retirement savings and into government sponsored, bank-favored, ruling party controlled...
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    Margin calls next week, guaranteed!

    Effective Tuesday 12/1/09: http://www.finra.org/web/groups/industry/@ip/@reg/@notice/documents/notices/p119906.pdf
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    1/4% Tax on all stock trades pushed in NY Times today

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704533904574548171635921470.html?mod=googlenews_wsj WSJ Monday, November 23, 2009 By SCOTT PATTERSON Sen. Ted Kaufman called Friday for the Securities and Exchange Commission to take immediate steps to stop so-called sponsored access, a...
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    What kind of percentage return do you get per day?

    And then you have a mooncalf like Jesus that clearly doesn't trade, doesn't have an edge to use with his $20 account, and who thinks millions and billions and trillions (oh my!) of dollars fluidly move in and out of any particular market at will or on a whim, for immediate credit/debit. I'll...
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    Can you lose more than the Initial Margin?

    The technical answer is yes; you can lose more than initial margin. With no limit. In practice however, the answer lies with your particular broker/clearing firm and the client account risk management that is allowed, applied, or imposed. To expand on your scenario, if the market opened or...
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    e-mini question

    As was stated: YOUR perception. 1) FUTURES price is "typically" based on the anticipated and/or perceived FUTURE spot-price, carry-cost, interest-rate, supply, demand, inventory, weather, geo-politicals, etc etc. It does not make sense these variables would remain stationary based on a...
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    Extra-fast recovery in India, China, Australia - IMF

    I wonder why the US Federal Reserve will not now, or ever, let their be books audited. hmmm.
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    CITI is ripping us off

    A FICO score of 0 is just as good as a FICO score of 850. In the middle sucks! Race to zero!
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    currency meeting in Russia next week ?

    Both of you are morons! Nov 6-7, 2009: G20 meeting, St.Andrews Scotland Nov 9, 2009: Bradley turn date (based on planetary constellations) Find your own links
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    Price foretells tsunami wave lambda

    The 615-1000 level better be wrong! I'd be very upset at that level with a Gold to DJI ratio of 1:1. Once unthinkable, now unstoppable. obama-lama
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    IMF to Dump Gold!

    The second possible reason is to (try) to protect the U.S. dollar from RAPID decline.
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    Net Neutrality?!?!

    Obviously, no-one in this thread (except me) has the slightest inkling what net neutrality is about. Taken from ETs favorite source of information Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_neutrality The principle states that if a given user pays for a certain level of internet...
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    This Depression is just beginning

    Let the games begin! :p :cool: obama-lama
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    Bank Holiday this month?

    And your point is?? Oh, I got it. You don't think it CAN happen. LOL
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    Bank Holiday this month?

    Precisely the thinking that would make a banking holiday (of unknown duration) a surprise. A little shock and awe directly affecting the finances of the citizenry goes a long way in controlling those citizens and their purses. I do believe in spooks, I do believe in spooks, I do, I do, I do...
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    Bank Holiday this month?

    As has been pointed out, this is an "old" prediction. With that in mind, there is no harm in being prepared (or for late-comers, preparing) for such an event. It's not like you'd lose alot of interest income! At this time, whether fact or fiction, it's important to realize that a US bank...
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    High Freq Trading Is 70% of Volume; Take It Away = Armageddon

    I lean towards this analysis as well. But frankly, as someone else mentioned, it's mostly a yawn. Much more interesting imo, though unrelated to HFT is Goldman telling their people to hoard cash. Is it really based on PR? Or is it bonus part deux...
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