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Think of the size of money as a balloon on multiple pumps with Gentle Ben red in the face pumping madly away on his really really big pump. Inflation and Deflation are obvious. Velocity of money is like the efficiency of the pump. One pump stroke gives you 10 units or one pump stroke gives you 1...

Absolutely agree with Handle. I also switch to options to manage risk in troubled times. The discretionary methods I use have never been published to my knowledge but are obvious when pointed out. A trading plan must contain the essential factors and it will work. The rest is just fluff and...

Since truth itself is for the most part relative, the judgement of irrational or rational is open to question I think. If a method gives positive expectancy, then maybe you are being irrational by insisting on an explanation that will never exist always in my opinion. Even if it existed, it...

I agree somewhat in theory, but in practice the sword of equality can cut back. What if there legitimately are not enough FARKIN JOBS. I think that if the minimum wage were cut to 10 cents, and all entitlements were completely removed, not every American would be working today. What if...

Not yet but I plan to. Perhaps on such a website you could keep track of "entitlements" and taxable income paid. Once your net balance was negative beyond a particular amount, one got no more entitlements until you paid back in? I am sure this will never fly.

Alberta has a flat tax system and it works great. Politicians begin complicating it a bit more each year by adding special credits again. My one page provincial tax has grown to almost three now. The biggest tax credit (even more than charity) is the political tax credit! On another note, I...

My mom (eight years ago?) had a 1 year wait list in BC, snuck down to Lethbridge Alberta and got it done in about 3 months. 6 months later she was back in Lethbridge for the other one in spite of being told that that was not allowed in our system. Meanwhile BC unions continue to cite our poor...

This comment means that you are not your ego. The ego can't exist without you but you can exist without the ego. So you have control of the situation no matter what you believe. Eckhart might say to stop feeding your ego when the real you fights against it. Simply drop it as not useful to you.

Interesting comment. Could you clarify this comment. Are you talking about the specific back-tested system? Are you talking about the taxonomy of system methods? Are you talking about your own trading? Or something else?

Reporters, leaks and sometimes regulator assistance?

There is a wonderful irony that Britain, home of the Fabian socialism movement (I believe), now thinks that it doesn't work. In truth, I doubt they really think this way. Their goal has never changed - world domination for the good of all. ( I am not talking conspiracy but the well-paved road...

Pure semantics in my view. Here is a Warren Buffet quote - "When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever." This is as close to the ideal of "buy and hold" as exists is in my view and he chooses individual stocks for a...

Wow. Someone better tell Mr. Buffet right away. My analogy is that stocks are like people. They have an infant stage where they can be wiped out if not nursed properly, then grow and get stronger, reach maturity and eventually die away. Even the mighty GE could have fallen in 2008 or so if...

I can't speak for US tax but in Canada the taxation treatment is identical except you have fewer commissions so slightly more profit and thus more tax. The RRSP account can do CCs but not naked. You need option permission from your broker to do them especially for naked sells on indices...

Respectfully, I completely agree with Don.. One difference in the two positions is who is bearing the "unlimited" risk - the trader or the firm. I laughed hard when I realized this for the first time - naked puts are RISKY!!! and covered calls are a prudent strategy for the sophisticated...

One site about some of the incredible things going on is deepcapture dot com. I am not sure if it is all true, but it is interesting reading. Empires end because they are built on something ultimately unsustainable. One of the signs of a change is corruption showing up everywhere. That is not...

Wealth is not a physical world thing but a derivative of power and a mind object. Physics (AKA the science of war - another idea) is about a world that we can touch. No human can touch 20 billion dollars. The real world has limits, our ideas seem to have few limits. When did you see a tree...

I had never heard of Mamon before but it sounds delicious http://panlasangpinoy.com/2010/04/08/mamon-sponge-cake-recipe/

So ..... very similar to the mafia?

Remember the huge opposition in the US to the Keystone pipeline? Know the huge opposition to the China connection to Kitimat BC? So-called "environmentalists" (more socialist- lite) and native groups have been caught when some of the pipeline hearings speakers turned out to know nothing...