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    Barclays stops doing VXX?

    Vix etfs do exactly as their prospectus says... Nothing flawed about them.. maybe your and others flawed understanding
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    Supply-Side economics. Why?

    Please you guys read this. Most popular economic theory is very wrong... https://mises.org/library/some-thoughts-supply-side-economics
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    Supply-Side economics. Why?

    Here is a good link.. I'll have more in a min https://wiki.mises.org/wiki/Supply-side_economics
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    Barclays stops doing VXX?

    There ya go... Regulation.... Where ever the state can keep the people from themselves
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    Barclays stops doing VXX?

    They make money by managing it.. if interest stays high in it. There will be no reason for them to shut it down.. everyone loves shorting it . As if it's free money...
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    TrumpNation

    Let China and Japan subsidize.. they will ruin themselves doing it.. why do we have to join in this protectionism..Over the long term any country that subsidizes or puts tariffs on trade hurts themselves.. first China subsidizes with fiat or taxes.. both of which reduces their standard of...
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    TrumpNation

    A currency war and a lowering of the standard of living... Tariffs benefit one group at the expense of another . It nets negative in total... This interventionist ideology is destructionism
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    Quitting day job to collect weekly premiums - realistic?

    Bad risk reward for outright selling near term premium.. Huge explosive gamma risk... I'm with maverick.... Wait till you get 20-25 plus vix and sell farther term puts 3-5 months out...keep your job.. there will be only 4-8 trades a year... If you get assigned keep working at your job and...
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    Futures Spreads Vs. Options Spreads

    you need to take every futures curve in to account separately.. EAch one has its own nuances.. Oil stores and there is storage costs and interest costs buried into the price of the each futures contracts ... when you put on a bear spread in oil there is no convergence , you are betting that the...
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    What Inflation Means to You: Inside the Consumer Price Index

    inflation tends to redistribute value to the first receivers of the new money.. at the expense of the last receivers , IE wage earners, and fixed income
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    Fed raises interest rates and adds another hike to its 2017 forecast

    yes manipulated on the largest scale
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    Households racking up debt, all because incomes are failing to keep pace!

    Inflationary monetary policy simply dilutes one class at the benefit of another class at a overall net negative to the entire equation... It's a fact that income of wage earning individuals and fix rate retirees get hammered over time .. they pay higher prices before their wage income goes up
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    Volatility of global wealth

    wealth in one country is poverty in another... i'd say overall standard of living..
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    S&P IV vs VIX

    Why the 25D is that because it'sa tepresentativeaverage of the strip... There is a premium to viz future ls due to the hedging costs associated with the fungible options strip... Strike risk etc
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    S&P IV vs VIX

    It does correspond with vix future... Index is just a rolling 30 day average created by weighting the options front terms
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    Pure IV Play

    well put.. i agree with this guy
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    Will Capitalism Survive/Fix This?

    you are completely mal informed.. japan is not a free market, what we have in the united states right now is the growing of the central government and a interventionist state.. The idea that capitalism created trump is completely ridiculous.. I did not vote for trump and i do not endorse his...
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    Will Capitalism Survive/Fix This?

    How Malthusian and false.. they thought this way thousands of years ago... Yet here we are with a higher standard of living due to capitalism
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    Will Capitalism Survive/Fix This?

    This has been a long standing justification for the welfare state... lower class and upper class are not static places.. people don't always stay rich, or stay poor.. for one point.. You can't buy down potential riots, crime, and radicalization with other peoples money. Creating dependency is...
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