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VIX > 20 Worry. VIX > 40 Fear. (Last year, May/June.) VIX > 80 PANIC! (Only happened in 2008.) We are currently at the level of "worry".

It's a popular myth that you can't have inflation without wage increases. Wages are just one component of costs. If the other costs go up inflation goes up. I suspect that wage increases strongly trailed, rather than led, inflation in Zimbabwe.

Schumer's proposal seems fair to me. (I'm no fan of that senator but even a stopped clock is right twice a day.) To the degree that HFT requires special new regulatory infrastructure, obviously the HFT guys should be the ones paying for it. This won't end HFT. It just means that the HFT...

Well, it says that 70% of women enjoy sex. I'm pretty sure that close to 100% of men enjoy sex.

Not being partisan, I'd say it applies to Obama, Palin, and Bachmann equally. Much as I dislike Obama, the Republicans are sure to repeat 2008 and come up with a candidate as unpalatable as John McCain was.

With Al Sharpton on the line up MSNBC would have to hire David Duke to have some semblance of balance. Except that David Duke never incited a mob to destroy another man's business.

I see no reason to believe that silver is a better tracker of debasement fear than gold. Why should it be?

Ron Paul has been a member of the Republican Party for a long time, and is running as a Republican right now. It's true that other Republicans hate him, because your average politician is always going to hate an honest man.

Yes. Ron Paul is a sane Republican. And a Christian. Jesus didn't tell him to bomb anybody.

If liberals stopped supporting a program just because it doesn't work they'd have to ditch 70% of all federal programs. Liberals do what they do because of a religious belief in the efficacy of big government. No mere facts will sway their mind.

It is well known that Paul puts earmarks in spending bills and then votes against those bills. So for the Paul detractors, point to a spending bill that he actually voted <i>for</i>. Is it Paul's fault that <i>other</i> politicians insist on spending money foolishly in his district?

This is what I know about Ron Paul: We will support the entire Bill of Rights for all American citizens, regardless of race. He believes that the government should treat us all the same, regardless of our race. Those two positions are enough for leftists to label Ron Paul a racist.

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Well, in another 20 years or so the whole US <i>will</i> look like inner city L.A.

All the numbers are meaningless, as they are stretched out over 10 years. We've seen this before, many times. The big reductions are always back loaded onto the later years, and will be completely forgotten about when those years come up. Also, most of the "cuts" are actually reductions in...

Gold is the only part of my portfolio I don't worry about. I can absolutely trust that my government will do whatever is necessary to keep the dollar value of gold high. Indeed, that's about the only thing I can trust my government to do.

A popular view among newbies -- most options expire worthless, so you're better off selling them than buying them! Most of the time the fair market value of an option is somewhere between the bid and ask -- meaning there is no particular advantage to selling or buying them. I think you'll...

You've learned the downside of vertical debit spreads. If the underlying moves too fast in the right direction the short side rises in value very fast and eats into your profits. The choices: Close out the position now at a profit, but not as big a profit as you'd like, or wait until you're...

Well for the vast majority of ordinary options traders, individual or institutional, it makes no difference if the MM are 5 ms tardy in getting their quotes updated. So I am unconvinced that the gaming by the HFT improves liquidity or accuracy in the option markets.

Well, one of those women was honest. She says she's a Democrat because she thinks the government should take care of it's citizens. Well, give her a lollipop. She may be a Democrat but she's not an American because Americans know that the function of government is to uphold our rights. Grown...