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If you want retail insurance protection in the US, your only alternatives are IB, which sweeps all cash balances into the part of their Universal account covered by SIPC, or Citifx, which attaches FDIC account protection. (As far as I know, there are no others)

Right off the bat you are getting cheated on the ECN fees. Any firm you trade with should have pass thru fees - they shouldn't hold the rebates because you are not a high volume trader.

There is about to be a pickup in job numbers (in the tens of thousands) that will start showing up on the payroll numbers and the administration will take the credit for it. It'll be the census workers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobin_tax#Debate

Ok. I thought it was THEY that wanted that ratio, which is why I saw the bias. My bad.

5 nays for every 1 yea: little biased there don't you think?

Like Lazio is going to push for a TT?

Don't count out Lazio. Gilly is going to fall under the Paterson shadow and that will have an effect. Dems don't like her because she's not progressive enough and Repubs don't like her because...well, she's a Dem.

This study by Baker, et al, is more than likely a response to our efforts to show how a tax would cut daily volume by half or more and how even with this tax proposal, the gov't can still capture significant revenues. This is obviously a counter argument to our successful efforts to discredit...

F*n Baker again!

Good article.

It's not a joke, jokes have an element of humor. It's stupid and irrelevant.

RAM envy.

* known as ECN fees

While I am aware that no one person can make law, but I just thought I'd repeat something from earlier this week that, while doesn't put us in the clear, it certainly helps: “Don’t think we’re not keeping score, brother,” Obama told DeFazio during a closed-door meeting of the House...

(fade in a Monty Python clip) Spam thread started in prop section by non-paying frequent poster who tries to get around the rules by using various sock-puppets. http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=186051

This is a bullshit article by a fear-mongering author on a fear mongering website! This has already been dispelled as bullshit this morning. Please people, take a breath and read what it is and who says it before you post about it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Jones_%28radio_host%29

There's been alot, and I mean alot, of postings about this firm in this forum, some good, some bad, but mostly bitching back and forth. Scan thru the thread titles in this section to check out the threads.

No where in his remarks did he indicate that the funding of this plan would come from the financial community: http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/12/18/obama.copenhagen.transcript/index.html

I tried to comment the same thing, but surprise, my comment is disallowed. This is nothing but a fear-mongering author on a fear-mongering site.