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I read a while back about Greece manipulating their debt numbers via swaps that moved debt off balance sheet but nothing about Spain. Can you link the report please if it's still available?

as long as your backtesting platform supports sub-second timestamp.

I read in Germany it's not common to own a home. Only realtively wealthy people do. Most prefer to rent. Naturally, people who own a few appratment buildings don't borrow much and keep their finances healthy. 2 things that may be helping this order of things are: 1) People are not keen on...

How much of the actual home price does a buyer in France typically pay? (Assuming 100% means the home is purchased outright and 0% means zero deposit and 100% mortgage.)

The wikipedia article you linked says the value of future pyment according to PFI contracts was £215bn. Assuming that the future quango payments stayed teh same (hopefully soem got repaid) and that there is no "present value" effect this adds about 24% to the official government debt. Not...

This is interesting. For a few recent years there was an overwhelming tendency in the UK to convert regional hotels into appartments. Some developers were able to realise as much as 200% profit based on the price of the hotel building (and they probably mortgaged it) in less than a year.

It could... In Excel you can got to top menu->File->Open... On the dialogue where you are supposed to find a file you can choose what kind of file you are opening. You choose "Text file" at the bottof teh dialogue, then find teh file you want to convert and click "Open" button. Then there...

IB doesn't provide any volume either. The only forex broker who used to provide volume and market depth was HotSpotFX but they have gone institutional now. Your best choice is FX futures on CME but they are a tiny fraction of the spot FX market (5% in EUR/USD last time I checked).

Excel 2007 or later should be able to do it. Otherwise, you may want to use some programming...

Where the British goivenrment intervenes in property market is interest rates. If the BoE rate was raised to 2005 level, a typical monthly mortgage paiment would double. This would be a massive hit for people who resently baught a home they can barely afford as it is. UK Government also holds...

I would generalize that: What kind of sick perv wants to play with stragers' balls all day long as a job?

That's an interesting idea. According to Bank of England the total value of deposists from individuals and individuals trusts (these are the "guaranteed" deposits") was £938 bln in Q3 2010. This is about the size of the reported government debt. It's important to note that the guarantees...

I'm sure you are well-versed regarding internals of the monetary system. However, lots of knowledgeable people take things for granted and don't think beyond what written in text books. No personal offence intended. As an example, I would like to share an intresting discovery I made recently...

A part of Russia's currency reserves has been in Euro for a few years. Now they are adding Candian Dollar. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=at5XsdLU.68w I'm sure Renminbi would be on the list if the Chinese government allowed it.

The government is prepared to subsidise colledge fees because parents (or students working themselves) pay for living expenses. Sending someone to colledge for 3-4 years to get a useless qualification delays them entering the unemployed list.

I understood you were saying that the current system in the US, which is body scanners and for those who refuse to expose themselve on a scanner - pat-down, is better than psychological profiling. I am saying that for a potential culprit, who is not lazy, ignorant, or dumb, going through the...

It's not like body scanners are any more efective. See video: Naked Airport Body Scanner Sees Everything But the Bomby Parts Given the opportunity, I'll post a few links I already posted in another thread: People's experiences with TSA Hundreds of body scanner images leaked online...

Do you mean Greeks? like Beta, Gamma, and Giorgos Alkaios

BSAM, this is a perfect case where profiling DOES work. An ordinary person smuggling a bomb to a plane will understandably feel nervous, probably so nervous that it will be clearly visible to anyone who looks around... or the person will have to take drugs, which will be visisble to a trained eye.

Looks like a perfect start for "who will be the last to post" thread