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    Time For a World Currency....?

    Ok....so note the authors.... Askari, a professor at GWU.... and Krichene, an economist at the IMF..... ................................................................................................. Hossein Askari is professor of international business and international affairs at...
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    Time For a World Currency....?

    http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/JF06Dj04.html
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    The Truth About Commodities, including Oil - Complete Speculation

    Solfest wrote.... If the price of oil is the result of supply and demand, then the current price is based on the real increase in demand from China and India and the threat of supply disruptions. This supply threat can be blamed on the war in Iraq and the recent price spike based on the...
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    Trading Stocks in Europe

    Excellent Commentary ...................................................................... Kudos to MiFID.... Have you heard any names as to who are the first ECN entrants ? What is really interesting at this point....is the realization that the exchanges are just a set of...
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    So when are we going to stop allowing casinos to determine the price of gas and food?

    Excellent Commentary All .................................................................. The interesting point here also is defining the destination of the higher priced revenues....will most of the difference go to the way of the Invisible Hand....or will it get invested in other assets...
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    Get The Hell Out: Part II

    Excellent Commentary All ....................................................... I do use Bloomberg for entertainment.... I find it quite amazing that they can talk all day.... Sometimes finding something worthwhile to talk about is difficult.... Bloomberg does set up genre....be...
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    Get The Hell Out: Part II

    Excellent Commentary All ....................................................................... Makloda wrote.... For what its worth, one thing that always helped me is blend out news headlines, blend out CNBC, blend out anything that others say and strictly stick with my trading...
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    The Beginning of the End of Oil Fueled Vehicles

    Excellent Commentary All ........................................................................... What is very telling is that there are a number of small companies that are taking their shot in entering the small innovative car markets.... And the production rates are relatively...
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    Dennis Gartman predicts massive waves of selling in commodities

    Prosecutions Possible Michael Greenberger, a former head of the CFTC's Division of Trading and Markets, said the agency is likely to find that some investment banks, hedge funds and wealthy individuals manipulated futures prices. Traders may face prosecution if they reported false prices or...
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    Slaughtering the Sacred Cows of the trading industry

    Excellent Commentary All ..................................................................... The payment arrangement for a stock hedge fund should be very simple....and a manager should not be rewarded for something the individual could have done on their own without any management...
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    Nationalize the Oil Companies, Refiners, Shippers, etc

    Excellent, Eloquant Commentary....As Usual ................................................................................... A capitalistic society rewards those who innovate....and taxes those who do not innovate.... Competition creates innovation.... What has happened in the US...
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    Nationalize the Oil Companies, Refiners, Shippers, etc

    Excellent Commentary .......................................................................... Limitdown wrote After all, what could have been worse than the last eight years of absentee management that has allowed a domestic power to subjugate all to their monopolistic practices and...
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    Now "entering phase 2 of the credit crisis"

    Excellent Article..... Lehman Brothers took writedowns of just $200m on its $6.5bn portfolio of sub-prime debt in the first quarter even though a quarter of the securities had "junk" ratings, typically worth a fraction of face value...
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    Air Car 1000 Mile Range 94mph

    Excellent Commentary .................................................................................... Crooks are everywhere....so beware....and above all ....guard your wallets and minds.... .................................................................................... Looks...
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    Dennis Gartman predicts massive waves of selling in commodities

    Excellent Commentary All ................................................................... One should think of all the components of why prices have moved the way that they have....and in particular what is different than the way things used to be a few years ago.... Speculation...
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    Air Car 1000 Mile Range 94mph

    Excellent Commentary All ....................................................... Advantages The principal advantages of an air powered vehicle are:[5] Compressed air engine reduces the cost of vehicle production by about 20%, because there is no need to build a cooling system, fuel...
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    Air Car 1000 Mile Range 94mph

    http://www.popularmechanics.com/automotive/new_cars/4251491.html?series=19
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    The New South America Union.

    Excellent Commentary .......................................................................... fearless9 wrote.... Efficiency does exist here but it takes on a different form and has an entirely different meaning to that which most Westerners understand...
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    The New South America Union.

    Excellent Commentary As Usual .................................................................................. I think the two, three, four party systems are obsolete. Elections just boil down to purchasing visuals and soundbytes which are aimed towards differing voting segments...
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    Dow Chemical CEO Assails U.S. Government

    The Bush Oil Administration Mission Accomplished.... .................................................... Just wait till the war possibility with Iran this summer .... The admin never stops....
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