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Has anyone tried the BMT site?

It sucks, but as I see it there are 3 types of boards but none of them cater to serious traders: 1- Forex boards, filled with posts about colorful indicators and such, and populated by (mostly foreign) pikers trying to earn a living by trading a $1,000 micro account 2- Investment type...

I thought you were talking about Obama :)

I like that response.

Yes, we have what is called Social Security. It varies by how much wages one earned over their working career, but the average (2012) was $1,230/month. Social Security is "funded" (loose term) by payroll taxes, which are taxed and capped up to the first $113k in income. The more you earn...

He quoted Bill Gross, not some guy who sells gold via infomercials

Nope. Not even close

Herein lies part of the problem. There was nothing in this bill to help reduce the medical litigation, yet study after study says that a significant portion of procedures, medications, treatments, etc are prescribed due to "defensive medicine". Defensive medicine is a fancy word for...

You are clueless. It's very obviously you have little business experience or acumen. Our average cost for health insurance per covered employee is over twice the figure you listed, and we are in a fairly low cost health insurance state. You can talk about flapping my gums, but we cover...

The bad part is that you have a declining labor force (old people retiring).... that results in less people "pulling the cart" and more people "in the cart" so to speak. Also, as you have a large generation like the Baby Boomers retire, they will reduce their spending substantially, which...

I think there are much stealthier ways to default than a write down.

Yes, but we buy all their shit, so they are tied to us whether they like it or not.

I'm pretty sure they haven't even issued guidance on that issue yet. This whole thing is a total cluster fuck and anyone that's looked at it seriously knows this. There isn't one thing in this bill that helps reduce or at least slow the growth of health care costs. In fact, it accelerates...

Ha! I'm an employer that covers about 25 employees and their families. This past year, our policy went up 53% before we shopped it and switched carriers. The lowest comparable policy we could find was a 35% increase. Starting in 2014, we'll have to cover our hourly employees, but the profit...

I would look into longer time frames. Position trading is so much easier than day trading. Granted, it may take a couple decades to compound your money into something significant, but if you find a real career and then position trade on the side, you can become very wealthy.

Education spending is one of the talking points for Dems to buy votes. This will not change any time soon. Everyone claims they want to cut spending but as soon as you actually start talking specifics, the Dems will say you're taking food out of the mouths of babies and that the Republicans...

It would be horrible because I don't see anyway that the US would abstain from involvement. Japan is a big ally of ours so we would be thrown into the mix. I don't know about you, but I really don't want a shooting war with China.

Well, if you are asking an anonymous message board for advice on starting a fund, then you probably have no chance of making it in a business that is predicated on raising money. As someone else said, if you have a way of making 10% with low draw downs, then all you have to do is add leverage...

What you are saying, is that the US is facing a long term lowering of living standards. This is indeed happening as we speak and started in 2008. I think it's just getting started.