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It seems that all of Obama's relatives on his father's side in this country are illegal immigrants. So it's no surprise that Obama is the biggest backer of illegal immigration we've ever had in the White House. (After Dubya and Clinton that's saying a lot.)

I already linked to a study of the appreciation of commercial Manhattan real estate. Gold was a better bet by far over 50 years. I doubt that residential real estate is much different.

You are a clueless idiot who has swallowed the lie that a functioning economy requires unending inflation (and thus confiscation of savers' wealth). Krugman would be proud of you.

If Fed money printing is the only thing holding up the stock market then the damn thing should be allowed to die.

What is street volatility?

Ron Paul has highly libertarian views but every election he has won was won by him running as a Republican. That is the party he's in, like it or not. Now if only more Republicans thought like Ron Paul, we'd still have the Bill of Rights.

I don't care if Iran is a threat to the country that deliberately tried to sink the U.S.S. Liberty and later caused enormous damage to our national security in the Pollard case. Israel is the bully on the block, with a much better air force than Iran has and far more nukes than Iran will ever...

The only politician who doesn't lie is Ron Paul, a Republican.

Which is why we need Ron Paul (who gets more donations from active members of the military than any other candidate). Every damn time this country gets in a war it leaves military bases behind, like so many dog droppings. Each one costs of bundles of money every year, which we borrow from...

It's been more than two years since Obama's inauguration and we still have troops in Iraq. (BTW, I count replacing regular troops with U.S. mercenaries as still having troops in Iraq.) So Obama loses on that one. Obama is getting us mired more in Afghanistan, just as he promised. We must...

I vote for "Neither". We should just declare victory in the War on Terrorism (TM), bring all the troops home, and dismantle the TSA.

I agree with that, as a paleoconservative. I'm sick of all the AIPAC whores (95% of our federal politicians) who think Israel is more important than any of our 50 states. Israel has 300 nuclear warheads. Nobody is going to be stupid enough to nuke Israel.

Sure, if you want to buy more shares of the ETF if it gets cheap.

It depends. Like everything else in options.

Well on IB you can bring up the option chain just like you can for any other asset that has options. The pricing looks comparable to the SPX options. IB does not show open interest for these options so I can't say how liquidity compares to SPX or SPY options. I can say that the bid and ask...

Have no fear, Onyango Obama will never be deported. Nor will 20 million other illegal immigrants under the Obama administration. If you ever wondered why Obama is so sympathetic to illegal immigration, now you know why. It's not just that he's a Democrat, it's that half of his family is...

Well, according to <a href="http://web.mit.edu/CRE/research/papers/WP90wheatonbaranski.pdf">this paper</a> Manhattan commercial real estate has on average not appreciated any faster than inflation. Over the past 50 years the official inflation has reduced the value of the dollar by a factor of...

Yes, South Korea's central bank purchased 25 tonnes of gold a few weeks back because the stuff looks pretty on Korean wives. Gold is not a currency, but it is money.

That's an interesting survey. 34% of those polled think gold is the best investment. I wonder what percentage actually owns any gold bullion? I suspect it's a lot less than 34%. In the past decade gold has been a better investment than the S&P 500. But I wouldn't want to make any bets...

Well, to quote the OP: "Even ignoring the obvious shortage issues, it's a fucking useless metal.... And eventually the post-apocalyptic peoples of the world would have to one day look up and say 'hey, what's this soft, heavy, ugly yellow crap that we lock in safes or paint silver actually...