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    U.S. Economy impact if President fired?

    The history of the federal debt http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/opd/opdhisto4.htm over the period of the demise of USSR suggests that the bills for that particular "victory" for the USA are still being paid. I'm not certain my unborn grandchildren will be so "thankful that it is gone"
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    Jobless Overstatement

    Actually straight from the horses mouth at http://www.bls.gov/lau/laufaq.htm How are the labor force components (i.e., civilian noninstitutional population, civilian labor force, employed, unemployed, and unemployment rate) defined? The official concepts and definitions used in the...
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    IB API questions...

    Not useless in my opinion. The data feed was designed to update a grid, not provide a time and sales stream.
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    Jobless Overstatement

    As far the govt statistics are concerned, everybody except those people receiving unemployment benefits is employed
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    US National Debt

    The US Treasury publish the national debt figures here: http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/opd/opdpenny.htm The history of the debt from 1950-2000, http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/opd/opdhisto4.htm shows the true cost of some of the previous adventures that are still being paid off. As far...
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    US National Debt

    Do you have any money in your savings account? How are you going to pay for your retirement? Yes, Greenie can inflate away the debt. The problem is that everybody that has anything will end up broke... imho
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    IB Release Notes......Build 815

    According to the release notes for version 1.4.2_03, http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/ReleaseNotes.html the only difference is "Ship currently published CA certificates in cacerts file." The problem started on 1/7/2004. The official version of what happened is available here...
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    Organize against IB

    sorry those times are all EST
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    Organize against IB

    My experience: My account is hosted on gw1. I know that gw5 had some sort of hardware problem a couple of weeks back that appears to be resolved now. I monitor #interactivebrokers chat room on othernet whenever I am trading. If there is a genuine IB wide problem, this room can be...
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    CME exchanges fees in Jan 2004

    According to dtn, the following price changes have been announced effective Jan 1, 2004: ------------ Old Rate -------- New Rate --------------------------------------------- CBOT ------ $30.00 ----------- $35.00 CME ------- $50.00 ----------- $30.00
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    GLOBEX T&S vs eSignal ticks

    I have long suspected that esignal tick counts are way off. A 65 tick iqfeed chart looks almost identical to a 135 tick esignal chart.
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    New CME Fees

    The only official news I could find at http://www.cme.com/abt/news/articles.html was the following: "Chicago Mercantile Exchange Launches Aggressive New European Pricing Plan" http://www.cme.com/abt/news/03-170EuropeanPricingPlan5349.html
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