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Someone please explain to me why TGT may be on the hook for 50 million regarding the credit info theft. My (admittedly dim) understanding is that the credit card companies make good on these transactions, protecting the consumer. So do they pay the retailer for the cost of good sold, or...

This thread reminds me of some discussions at the Morningstar discussion boards in 2007-2008 by the diehard fans of dividend stocks. There was repeated discussion of a fund, ADVDX, and whether the fund could continue its outsized distributions indefinitely. When something has 200 posts...

I wish I could get women to be less risk-averse. Those who are willing to take a chance or two are good traders. We do not have to be right. We have the stuff to trade "what is." Less ego, more reality.

Unfortunately the article is not coming across.

Isn't the expected value of most options trades (spreads or not) close to zero? I'm not sure you can alter that fact that by bailing early, since you will be bailing out of both winners AND losers--you just won't know which. Unless you can be right (more often than chance) about the...

Maybe it has to do with your expectations for your surroundings or yourself. If someone told me $65K was all I would ever be able to make, I am sure I could be happy on that. I would have to live differently than I do now, but don't think it would be such a difficult adjustment. I could drink...

What rubbish. Most people are honest, and that includes the poor and ignorant. Those who will do something like this are a minority.

Most people pose the question this way: Are you consistently profitable? I am profitable, but not consistently. However, I don't need to make money every month. I just need to make money overall, and save some of it during the up months for use during the down months. Simple budgeting. You...

Lest someone complain because my stats came from the CDC, here are similar data collected directly from hospitals and provided by a non-US peer-reviewed journal. This source indicates that about half of GSW are accidents related to handling and cleaning of guns...

Honestly, this site looks pretty low-budget. In any case, there are about 50,000-60,000 GSW in US per year. http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/ficap/resourcebook/pdf/monograph.pdf

I'm not being facetious. What you say truly makes me feel better.

Thanks. I feel better now.

I am willing to look at these data if anyone knows who is collecting them.

I think we could add Korea as a scorched earth example. Maybe others will find additional examples.

Thank you for (1). I hope it is true. One of my concerns is that the US military is a volunteer force, and may differ from the military in other nations. As for (2), US wars, generally speaking, may not provide examples of what the US is capable of. What the US military does and what it...

The US is not Egypt. The government has much more sophisticated weapons at its disposal. The powers that be will do anything to stay where they are. Unless everyone in the military defects, I do not think that 350 million people can win against them.

Many of my friends are extreme liberals. They do not fear the government. Conversely, they believe the government is there to take care of them. To me, that seems a strange point of view given the history of the actions of our federal government, but people do cling these ideas. However...

I've been thinking about that too, but am not convinced that it is true. Do you think even 300 million of us with our little handheld weapons are a match for the US military? No, they can dispense with us all. Maybe the poster above has the best idea: the ballot box.

Isn't owning guns outdated? The idea of the founding fathers was that a citizenry who can own guns cannot be gunned down by a government. But witness Waco (among other things). The government already has us outgunned. Do you really think you can hole up in your house with 1000 guns and...

I just had to write that :D