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Yup .... for 10000 years, since we have chosen the toughest, smartest and most capable as leaders. Time for a change perhaps?

Will history rhyme when China takes over the Bretton Woods reins? Will the US be too weak, will a spy lead everything again? Stay tuned on the next exciting edition of the soap opera that is world monetary leadership today .......

You mean something like STUXNET? http://spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/security/the-real-story-of-stuxnet Years ago sitting in a weekly meeting with the top technical people in areas for a company, we were discussing a spybot program recently discovered inside our company. Since I was...

Kudo's to you for asking and (respectfully) taking opposing sides. Ideas don't have a market to adjudicate the truth against a measure like making money. It harms no one to hear the strongest arguments on either side, but should we all agree on one side - lookout below. Just like the market...

One additional thing: you will never find me telling you how to do things against the public interest. My job was to protect corporations information and I still do even though I don't work for them now. I can vaguely tell you well known information, but not specific details. I'm sure many...

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OK what did you do? .... may as well confess now. The short answer, is that far more information than you think is handed out when you post. Given resources, you are never anonymous. although the information may be useless when they go to research it depending on the installation you visit...

Sometimes, it is good to frame the bigger picture and sometimes it is good to focus in on specifics for trading. Different ideas are good to help firm up your own ideas. There are some very intelligent people on this site with which to compare your own trades and thinking. I appreciate their...

When the UK lost it, the US picked it up. The US had the bigger guns. China and Asia can pick it up from the US now, but this time they don't have the bigger guns (yet). That is concerning to me. If Russia, India, and China get together ...... oh my.

Relative currencies can also hide inflation and deflation. That is something many people don't seem to undertand. It is OK to cheat your own countrymen but foreigners don't accept that taxation and theft for safety bargain so easily. I don't think one world currency will work either since then...

Equity is supposedly an increase due to adding value of some kind to a product ( or service). Debt is a promise to pay and a stream of payments (income). That stream and the promise has no real economic value other than faith. When the ponzi music stops, real economic value will become apparent...

because the control of the economic future is in the hands of madmen. It is hard for rational and ethical people to imagine what desperate souls will do when the SHTF.

... and this is actually happening a bit right now. The earnings of the large US banks are suspect and people wonder why gold and commodities are being sold. In a crisis, one sells what has value to fund what does not. There is an obvious and a much deeper reason for that if one thinks about it.

Fractional reserve banking requires an exponential growth of debt. It is not reversible because of the interest paid. If the interest payments are not met, then the entire monetary system will need to be reset. A little deflation is fine for us, but a huge amount is the end of the banks and...

I have donated to large well known charities for decades each month. Let them sort out the true need. The reason I chose a handful of researched ones and rejected all the others, particularly the emotional ones on TV is a result of a few true stories. Where I live, we do get blowing snow and...

While I don't subscribe to Armstrong's beliefs, superstition is what happens when logical minds meet chaotic (or random) results. Look at how many traders use superstitions to trade and call them edges. On reflection, perhaps you are right.

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Just pointless, like 90% of the other posts I guess! :D

If so few can "make the cut" posting trading records, what does that tell you about edges and trading in general? When I started, I looked for a mentor. I was surprised to find a dearth of quality traders waiting to tell me what to do. I understand why that was a whole lot more now. The...

Most people work because they need to according to stats that I have seen, some work because they like it, but there are over 10% of people (not sure how many exactly) that work because it gives meaning to their lives. They are not sure who or what they would be without a job. The stats on...