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Russia is a worthless crumbling country. No one cares what Putin thinks anymore.

If these are your unanswered questions, what is in the "good chunk" that you've already done?

There might be a SLIGHT difference in state income tax rates in these two states!!!!

For you to charge for internet content, you must be highly specialized and provide something that can't be just as easily found for free. The NYT doesn't qualify as that.

Wow, what a disturbing article and weird justification by olias. Anyway, I do wish that our justice system would revert back to the way it was 120 years ago. Regardless of race, these guys need to be swinging from a tree limb, and that's the way it should be. I've never understood what it is...

Sale per Unit in 2009: McDonald's- $2,251,000/store Subway- $445,000 It's hard to make significant money unless you own 10+ Subways.

They may have more stores, but Subway's average sales per store is less than 1/4th that of McDonalds. I think Subway is literally my least favorite place to get a sandwich.

That's what I thought before I had kids.

Yes. Anyone who makes the claim that kids are a poor investment, have never had kids. You really can't understand what love is, until you have kids, IMO. Wives, gf's, siblings, parents, friends are all great, but aren't even in the same arena as your own children.

Yes, but the fact is, someone has to pay for the technology and personnel involved in health care. And by someone, I mean YOU AND ME. We pay for it all. It's just a matter of what form that payment takes: *Taxes- for government provided health care (medicare/medicaid/obamacare)...

I agree it will have to be a combination of tax increases and spending cuts. I disagree that it's less damaging to introduce a VAT, rather than raising income tax rates. When given the choice, and the bond market will ultimately force a choice, the US will reduce entitlements over large...

There are many broad basket commodity ETF's such as DJP, RJI, GSG as well as dozens of commodity specific ETF's (like UNG). There is no one best, although UNG as you mentioned is one of the worst, if not the absolute worst.

VAT = political suicide for anyone who advocates it. There is no appetite for a VAT in the US. We are a net importer. Our entire economy, for better or worse is based on people spending on goods/services. Chances of a VAT are far more remote than Obamacare being overturned, which...

As to your title, it's not a bad thing for lawyers to be replaced, IMO. 70% of them are not trustworthy and 50% of them would sell out their own mother to make a buck. They are the 2nd biggest drain on business productivity in the US, behind government regulations.

Not true. The Dollar is the reserve currency of the world currently. Gold is valued in Dollars, not the other way around. It is an asset class, just like housing, the stock market, bond market, corn, oil, etc all of which are valued in dollars. I can buy more electronics, a bigger...

Borderline criminal

For an ETF option, you can look at FCG....... much better than UNG. This fund looks to have bottomed last summer and has had quite a run. Here is the description of FCG: Fund Summary The investment seeks to replicate, net of expenses, the ISE-REVERE Natural Gas index. The fund invests...

These are the first 5 of 23 spread ETF's that factorshares has filed to launch so it will be interesting to see the other options.

I really would be interested in these products if they rebalanced monthly, rather than daily. Daily rebalanced leveraged products under-perform so badly on longer time frames, like I trade. This is a great concept though, and hopefully in a couple of years, there will be a monthly rebalance...

Interesting concept. I would never trade a brand new ETF until it's had 4-6 months of price history and starts to gain some liquidity. But these are definitely something to watch down the road. It seems that the major discount brokers will all be offering free etf trading soon.