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Excellent Commentary............................. austinp wrote......... I'll give a serious answer, while waiting impatiently for some short trades to work: #1: The realization that trying to forecast = predict = guess future price action was worthless, and actually detrimental to...

Excellent Commentary........... What is interesting here is the subject of farm subsidies....particularly with respect to the WTO talks and globalization agreements... It appears that the typical farm subsidy programs can be eliminated to some degree as an agricultural...

Excellent Commentary ............. The real question here should be clarification as to what is legal...but yet not legal... For example....to position a company for public placement one would have to know that the value at placement is higher than the pre -public value... Thus it is an...

Gottschaulk wrote..... Anyone that thinks that gold based currency is any more "solid" than pure fiat is delusional. Gold has little intrinsic value. Gold was used as a currency which derived its value almost exclusively from exchange. Gold-backed currency is barely different then...

Excellent Commentary ................................................................................ Thank you for the article.... For many countries....$40 is still too high....These countries live in the $200 to $800 world... Templeton Group has for some time used the mid $40s as an...

Excellent Commentary..... ................................................................................ These are very astute observations....and the winner is ....as always the one with the best overall presentation who can buy the most sound bytes and video clips.... Reagan was a...

Excellent Commentary ......................................................................... The straight instruments held at a firm such as Goldman would be the way to go for large amounts... Any group of securities held in a fund name would be subject to that corporate fund name...

Excellent Commentary All.... Although a very small percentage of people in the US control the majority of the wealth...as is the case in other countries....it does seem that Chavez, Putin, and other leaders that favor nationalization of assets fail to understand the importance of free market...

Excellent Commentary ....................................................................... The 2%...20% typical payouts are a lot of money.... when a big hit is made..... In many cases...it is just taking a shot with somebody elses money...

Excellent Commentary ............................................................................... Exactly...the lowest volatility...commensurate with the greatest relative returns...with the most understandable risks...will attract the money.... In the beginning...hedge funds that were...

Excellent Commentary All... ................................................................................................ The real argument here pertains to the income stream attached to the currency.... It is the income attached to the currency...or whatever the business is...that...

Excellent Commentary All .............................................................................................. The Oil Welfare states want one thing...more money...which in turn means a better financial future for their countries...For some of these countries...oil represents more...

What I would like to see happen in the Chavez case.... ........................................................................................... Man...it does not matter who owns the company...it does not matter if it is the government...some corporation..... The only way that...

Excellent Commentary All .......................................................................................... I have houses in several of these countries...employees...businesses...etc... The poorer countries that are oil importers....whose incomes are $150....$500 per month...

Libertad: The Caribbean countries...Brazil...and the US have an excellent opportunity before them by creating ethanol from sugar cane .... …Thus the money that makes up as much as 30% of some of their GDPs leaves because of oil...This money could stay...The electrical production from cane...

SouthAmerica wrote: January 30, 2007 SouthAmerica: On Monday, January 29, 2007 The New York Times and also The Financial Times had a column about energy use in the United States and ethanol. On The New York Times article columnist/economist Paul Krugman wrote “The Sum of All Ears”...

Traded since 1978... I started when Merrill Lynch had board rooms and pneumatic tubes....and the brokers room was a singular open space.... Commissions were very high....the markups on bonds were very high etc... Used to plot hourly data on paper...as well as point and figure on paper...

The real question here is ... How is it the case that these individuals should not be impeached....? Or go through other legal proceedings regarding the issues at hand ?.....

I use several data feeds.... IQ has had issues for the last two days... I have been so used to having no issues....this has come as a surprise.... Nice to have more than one data feed....as many good vendors will have their days....

Excellent Commentary All....... .............................................................................................. It is very interesting to see two draft dodgers...namely Bush and Cheney ...want to lead the US military in the ME jaunt... Obviously...these ex oil employees...