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LOL..... our political system is such a joke. The Fed and Central Banks around the world stimulate and print, to no avail. The money doesn't reflate the housing market (their goal), but instead reflates oil prices. Then the Fed releases a study that points to xx% of oil prices that can be...

It depends to large extent which district you live in. If you live in Detroit, St. Louis, Kansas City, Washington DC, and many other large cities, you would not send your kid to public schools. It's borderline criminal.

Paid or free. It would be nice to sort by sector. Thanks!

Poor men taking the risk of getting a bullet to the head in order to feed their family is much more admirable than cutting off your own foot just so you don't have to go to work.

The same could be said for you. Just because your idea of a good lotto system has more "fairness" doesn't mean that the market demands it.

Do you think this idea hasn't been thought of before? Why did Powerball, just take it from $1/ticket to $2/ticket? To get bigger jackpots. That is what the people want, I would assume. It's not as if the lottery is a new concept, or their is no way to do market research for what is...

Mav, this is what you get, when there is an entire generation of people raised to believe that everyone wins and that there are no winners or losers in any activity in life. Finish a race, dead last out of 30 kids..... no problem, you still get a ribbon. You're little daughter plays on a...

Why do you assume to know better than the states that operate the lotto's what will work best for their operations? I would be willing to wager that they have statistical proof that large, single-winner jackpots generates the most interest ($$) for lotteries. As a socialist, you should be...

There are a lot of ways people spend money with a negative expectation. I play the lotto (maybe average $4 or $5/wk). I look at it purely as entertainment. It's a consumption item, IMO and well within what I can afford to spend on entertainment. You could easily say anyone that spends a...

I like this Socialist Lotto idea. I think Obama should enact this with or without congressional approval immediately. It will work like this..... -Use the interstate commerce clause as justification for the act. -Force the American people to "purchase" lotto tickets weekly or face a...

I have decent reading comprehension, but I have no idea what you just said...

This is the crux of the problem for most 1st world governments. As workers live longer, they simply must work longer to compensate. We have the opposite. In the US, it's not uncommon for a public sector worker to retire at age 55. Think about that for a second. In a world where the...

Did the Fed study find that oil prices spike was exacerbated by QE1 and QE2?

Exactly. The bond market will be the ultimate deciding factor in when we finally have to get our deficits under control. They can kick the can further down the road, until the bond market says, "It's time to get your act together, or else". At which time the politicians will either have...

Ummmm, I'd be more pissed at my government. This is pure comedy. Has anyone heard the phrase "Robbing Peter, to pay Paul"? LOL

Western Civilization is in for a rude awakening. "The New Normal" is a fact, not just a catchphrase.

LOL, you think these poor children in rural China would be going to school if it weren't for "evil AAPL" outsourcing manufacturing? That is funny. Rural China isn't a lot different than the US was 100 years ago. What do you think your great-great-granfather did in his teens? Probably...

What do you think these kids would be doing if they didn't have a job? I know it's not as nice as playing soccer from age 4-18, then going off to college, living off your folks and partying until you're 30, like we do here in the States, but you have to ask yourself what the alternative is.

That's kind of Eight's point. They really haven't progressed much since the Ancient Greece time period. At least relative to the West.

I think you can have a good understanding of inflation and that isn't necessarily exclusionary of having a hedge versus deflation.