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I do not know which way to vote, but I have noticed a multitude of times that the bad calls made here on ET are blamed on PPT or some other dark forces of interference.

Bush can't do anything right. Next he will be giving out a number and accidentally say, "Just dial 1-ZZZ-zzz-zzzz."

Free health care for everyone via your drinking water. The drug companies will find a way to charge you for the pharmawater.

Better learn how to adapt and take advantage of changes in volatility. Volatility will change regardless of whether there is an uptick rule or not. Volatility has increased and decreased through the decades of the uptick rule.

The democrats have told me numerous times that only the rich own stock, so I think it's fair to tax gains at a higher rate. Anyone that is rich enough to own 1 share of stock should be punished for they are making an attempt to not just rely on Social Insecurity to retire on.

Afraid so, but I could not help but to ask Hedgefund"Trader"2 for an explanation. A quote from HT2 in a recent thread that he started, "Stock markets are there to go up and not down." That would explain everything I guess. The problem is that these people complain to the gummint to pass...

Explain how the uptick rule would have protected the entire market from a sell-off reaction to the gross irresponsibility of the financial sector's endangerment of the entire economy. Explain how the uptick rule would have prevented share owners from selling off stock of a screwed up company...

Too many people treat money like disposable garbage, not the Life Force that money is. No respect for money at all. I know too many people that if their income was suddenly doubled, their spending would suddenly double and then some. Then when hard times come, they've got nothing. I...

"A Michigan congressman wants to put a 50-cent tax on every gallon of gasoline to try to cut back on Americans' consumption." Gasoline rising from $0.99 to $3.50 per gallon has done nothing to decrease consumption.

Good posts, libertad. I've been fearing the big houses would seize the opportunity to shift the blame from themselves onto their competition. The big companies want at least four things, eliminate the competition, so they can charge higher commissions, get a lifetime guarantee of government...

I thought ET was a site for traders. Obviously the non traders, the buy and holders, have seen their positions lose value and do not believe fundamentals caused the market downturn. They see nothing wrong with the mind numbing stupidity of companies like Bear Stearns over leveraged, 30 to...

Now would be the time while everyone is distracted by the faltering economy, etc. Little by little they chip away. It's a slow process. Eventual firearm confiscation - they will no longer fear the people - the final solution to paving the way to a less populated, overpopulated planet...

We are leveraged 33 to 1. Somebody bail us out. Somebody bail me out. I ain't making no payments on something that lost 30%. Just walk away like a real man. I gotta make payments for 30 years? Why didn't somebody tell me? Hey, that's not my signature. Next thing you will hear is about a...

Most of the time the Klintons don't even try to make it look like a real accident. They get sloppy and careless with their disposal problems and they still get away with it.

If only there was an actual attempt to make vaccines safer....mercury, viruses etc. I think mercury as a preservative has been removed now. Now that it's too late for a lot of kids, what with around 50 childhood vaccinations they've been receiving now days. MERCURY!? Injecting kids with...

Indeed. The US has a very bad habit of saving, rebuilding countries and continents resulting in freedom and huge economic prosperity and to show their gratitude those countries turn around and..... Time to pull the life support plug on other nations every time they get themselves into trouble...

Polio vaccine used to be contaminated with simian virus until the 1960's. 10-30 million were injected with this contaminated vaccine. Since vaccines are made from eggs, when will they start injecting us with some kind of bird flu variant? Vaccine manufacturers screen eggs for about 2 dozen...

I agree with you, armoured saint. Most movies are dull. Sort of like watching a vegetarian grazing away! Though I do like to watch all them animal shows where those meat-eating carnivores love to devour their prey. But seriously, there is a lack of imagination in Hollyweird. Mostly all...

How about some more rules and regs, like no one is allowed to start a home based business with less than 25k capital. In other words, Granny cannot knit mittens and sell them to people she knows, cause she doesn't have 25k to start her business. Gotta protect Granny from hurting herself...

Hitler!