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I propose that the title of this thread is inaccurate. It should be -when will the iphone 6 rumors start! http://www.zerohedge.com/news/dr-kevin-and-mr-warsh-former-fed-governor-exposes-fed "Last year, the Federal Reserve bought 77% of all of the debt that Tim Geithner issued. " (OMG...

One can't reasonably fundamentally trade this because the pair - Draghi (immovable object) versus Gentle Ben (unstoppable force) are opposing each other using the greater fool theory. Perhaps we get them around a poker table and winner takes all. The suspense (literally???) is killing us...

Is this a political way of forcing the government to act on the fiscal cliff? If there is nothing left that the Fed can do, does it put the ball back in their court?

An astute observation. I think the reason for never ending is so Gentle Ben can use the tool he has left - (as he said) communicating with the public. Now he can communicate over and over without any tie to reality behind the scenes. He doesn't want to traders to front run his policies but...

I might be interested ...... how much are asking for it?

Ah - so it was the regulators to blame for fining him too much. That is likely to be a first in history. Not sure how that excuse flies in the face of his admission to starting the fraud almost immediately after starting his business. Did regulators know something early and fine him big right...

I forget where I read my favorite comment about GM, but it stuck in my mind: That it was a pension plan that happened to make cars as a sideline. I wondered how many similar pension companies were out there. Given the desperation of the presidential race, I think GM will be just fine...

There is plenty of substance in this comment. I like to say there is no magic. I do think that there are other ways to make money. For example deep understanding of what a efficient market is and particularly what it is not can make consistent money. Knowledge of what your opponent is doing...

Be cautious about the quality (LOL even me I guess) of some of the option posters here. I wish I knew a superb options trader website to ask such interesting questions. I like to think about these to exercise my thinking from time to time. So I have a potential theory for you that...

My stab at this key question ..... ... a ponzi scheme goes into exponential growth and ultimately most investors lose everything and are wiped out never to use the same money to invest again. .. a bubble goes into exponential growth and ultimately most investors get some of their money...

First they came for the socialists, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for...

I'll bet you wouldn't really. So the markets you trade would switch to step function changes and you are now unemployed as computers take over? An event occurs that makes you an instant millionaire or instantly bankrupt every day? Is that the world you want? I think that traders are only as...

Great point, they can't be ripping themselves off! I am getting a very bad reading/feeling about the next couple of years in particular. The increase in wealth for "the rich" in the past 20 years was mostly about senior corporate salaries, laying off the poor and the workers, and borrowing to...

While I agree with you in theory, I think that holding a constant GDP is impossible because of our peculiar fractional banking system. Growth is needed to keep the ponzi economics going because of fringe effects like interest used to keep people using paper over hard assets. A constant GDP...

Since it is the UN that is directly involved in causing these things, it is odd that one would expect them to fix the problems that justify their existence. For further research the documents on the report from iron mountain, the 1933 coup attempt on the US that FDR supposedly stopped, the...

Don't worry, if money fails, even the rich will not make it this time, since they have nothing left then. I often smile at those who reading the tea leaves to come, talk about having guns and a hide away. What happens to one, happens to all of us. That is the broader meaning of environment I...

Interesting comments. So are the American's now friends with Al Queda by quietly supporting freedom fighters in Syria? (exactly like Libya) Iran might be the next target for freedom fighters. Just like the novel 1984 mentioning continual war and flipping sides on a dime. You just can't...

"Motivated by greed, SCB acted for at least ten years without any regard for the legal, reputational, and national security consequences of its flagrantly deceptive actions," the New York Department of Financial Services says. It seems to me that we will read these words again for a lot of...

My understanding of hunter-gatherer societies (where we seem to be headed back to - guns and caves LOL) had no state military (they used conscription for a common foe) and government did not control their economy. Will that do? Daniel Quinn's books have one answer for you. Never is a long...

I agree. Currency is a derivative of something else and therein lies the rub. What is currency a derivative of?