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It certainly is becoming a bigger issue for Obama and it's getting to a point where he can't gloss over it and run away. It will get VERY interesting if either Obama or Hillary tries to start to deflect to the other.

It's the exact same on a micro level. Of course he thinks he can at least spend some of the money better than Obama giving it to foreign companies and failing green energy start ups.

The VP debate is small peanuts. The real deal will be Tuesday at Hofstra.

I'm not sure why you can't understand this point. He voted against it. It passed anyway. His constituents are on the hook for the liability regardless. The President was handing out money, that his constituents will have to pay back. If your wife took out a home equity loan that...

You're missing the point. It's a FEDERAL stimulus, so it will be paid back by all US tax payers, including residents of Ryan's district in WI. Ryan voted against it, that is the key point. But the Dems controlled both houses of congress so it passed despite his efforts against it. At...

Obviously the stimulus money was going to be spent regardless. Would you have him forgo trying to get some of that money for his state, even though his constituents were going to pay for it later? That would be malpractice, and certainly doesn't mean he believes stimulus is a good thing.

QE helps increase asset prices, most of which are held by the middle class and up. The people lower on the economic totem pole, as well as those 30 or under, will be paying for this asset price reflation through debt service and inflation, yet may never be able to take part in the asset price...

Government is inherently bad, because of the human element. Power corrupts humans. In the case of the free market, there is always competition, so if and when a company is corrupted, they are forced to change due to competition or they will cease to exist as a company (except big banks and GM...

So this guy can build a perpetual motion device, but he can't produce a video with proper lighting or a camera that was produced after 1985?

GM's market share is shrinking. They didn't do enough to lower their labor costs when they restructured last time. They are selling Volts at a loss. Such is life when you get in bed with the government I guess. My prediction is that in the next 4 years, after the next recession hits, GM...

By the time it's apparent that the lines are compressed/trending, it's probably too late to capitalize on it IMO. That is often the case with indicators

It's just another form of trickle down. If you think about it, wealth creation has to be trickle down in one form or another because poor people have nothing to contribute except missery. You can either pull poor people up through a healthy economy or you can drag rich people down, but you...

There is a black Monday call on ET roughly EVERY weekend.

Playing devil's advocate.... Who would you rather be: 1- Poor Chinaman working 6 days a week earning $5k/yr with a 38% savings rate, while living in conditions that would make most trailer park residents blush or 2- American consumer, who lives in a 4-BR McMansion, with 2 cars, an...

It's funny that you bring up the train wreck that is the Kansas City, MO school district. It is so bad, that the state recently seized control from the KCMO school district. The district is also not accredited. Colleges and universities do not recognize their diplomas. A GED is superior to...

Please don't tell me you've never heard of school busing programs, open enrollment, etc. What do you think the purpose of that was? My point, is that if you take a bunch of inner city students, 75% of which have horrible parents (broken families, etc), you can bus them to the newest...

It's not as if we've never tried this. Some may be helped by going out to the more well off white schools, but the schools and white students will be pulled down as well. Most of the kids in major city public schools have horrible parenting, which is a much bigger influence on their success...

Yep, and they still can't make money. What they have to worry about, is technology changes fast. There's no guarantee that the "facebook" of 2020 will still be facebook.

You're going to have to be much more specific in order to get a helpful answer. What kind of duration (short, long, intermediate)? What are you using them for (capital preservation, appreciation, hedging, etc)? Are you worried about default risk, or simply whether it will be a...

From what I saw at that convention and hear from Dems, that's doubtful. I'd say 1 out of 3 Dems feels that way deep down.