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Any one using Bush's tenure to judge the merits of the free market is like using the fact that China has grown so fast in the last decade to justify communism. Lets face it, this type of philosophical posturing is all just a prelude to frameing the language to justify a big move toward more...

I know what you mean, I've posted on ET for 5 years and never pumped anything and was cautioned. I wonder if there isn't perhaps an element of liability that they are wanting to avoid as much as avoiding the spam pump and dump posts?

That is assuming the bully is a rational thinker. A fundamentalist of any stripe is by definition not rational. Look at the punishment that Isreal has dished out to the Palestinians, they keep coming back for more because they are driven by emtion and not rational thought. You either...

It is true that losses carry over above 3k each year and can offset gains in future years. If you dad has say 100K in losses for 2008 he will be able to deduct $3k against his 2008 taxable income. If he makes gains in 2009 he will be able to use the 97K loss carry over to offset gains.

The real architects of the stimulus package: http://bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aL2W6p56.aMQ&refer=home I found it interesting that during one of the meetings of senators today they kicked all their staff out of the room. Wonder why they felt the need to do that...

A lot of people feel the same way, even some democratic senators. They should have split the bill in two. The jobs portion to pass immediately, which at best seems to only be about a few hundred billion of this bill, and the spending portion to pass later when adequate debate has taken place...

Wow this is going to do wonders for our credibility with the Chinese, they now think we have a con man as Obama's top economic advisor. They are paranoid about getting screwed in business and by the west as it is, this will go a long way in assuaging their fears!

CO, you are not being singled out, I received the exact same letter when I posted about a stock that qualified as a penny under ETs TOS. Its not my site so I don't mind following the rules set up by the site owner. Plenty of other places to post such stocks if one feels so inclined and plenty of...

Do we need to create some jobs? Yes I think we do, but does this make any kind of sense? Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said Wednesday that every job created by the Senate stimulus bill could cost taxpayers between $100,000 and $300,000, a steep increase from before the stimulus, according to a...

There is a lot of skepticism about this rally. It feels like people are layering on shorts here. Next week could see a short squeeze of epic proportions.

This stimulus bill creates jobs at a cost of 900K+ per job at the high end or $300K in the low end (if 3.9M are created vs 1.2M) and he jobs that will be created will be the type that pay on average $33K. Does this make any sense to anyone?

FWIW I am long NQ and long cheap OTM puts. I think that we are in a wedge or pennant and about to break out one way or another. If it is on the upside the NQ longs have me in the green (as of yesterday), if we are not in for a sharp bear market rally as it looks likely right now, then the...

Keep an eye on the sox and what it does as it hit the down trend line of the wedge, we are almost there. Sox has been a great tell.

We've already seen some of that ignorant anti semitic ugliness of late on ET. I am more concerned about anti asian sentiment and think that the major friction will eventually be between the US and China.

Agree and why I think that this may well be in our future: http://elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=152942

Nationwide is unlikely to be necessary but I am talking about some major metro areas and not in response to any natural disaster, simply because the politicos are worried about unrest and people marching on things like the capitol building or the stock exchange. I am a guy who is pretty much...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123387976335254731.html Where is the risk management or is it just going all in and averaging down with OPM? Yeah works great when all dips can be bought by these dipshits but not so much when they have a real market to deal with. These are the people who cause...

We don't trust us, no wonder the Chinese don't. In fact if I were advising anyone on their investments I would tell them to run for their life when old credit addict (think meth addict) uncle sam comes around trying to pimp his bonds. Libertad, you are right but I don't see us getting there...

I put the probability at 75% so will vote yes.

LOL what were you worried about Daal, Obama wouldn't threaten Dodd and Schumer's pals in any meaningful way. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123387352310154241.html