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Most importantly, politicians and the public need to understand who exactly we are..... In the late 90's we started direct access trading and made the markets more efficient by narrowing the spreads, and reducing the commissions via direct access technology.... The big brokerages hated us...

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first of all you would be paying it up the ass for fills on stocks, volatility would be all over the place because of lack of liquidity. and by the way there was plenty of daytrading going on in the early 80s and especially early 90s, the avg joe just wasnt involved as much yet, the big boys...

Actually this is a golden opportunity for smart companies to offer trading venues with differing government domiciles and markets. Most likely a sophisticated LLC model with various exchange memberships would be most likely..... What is most preferable would be an IB type format with...

http://mises.org/story/3126 Could just as well be Bernanke.... Credit expansion and trying to keep prices high.....was a big time depression mistake... And he is taking out all of the stops to make the same mistakes again...

If there is a five year window..... then by then companies such as BATS will be offering other exchanges in other domiciles.... Other exchanges will be broadening their offerings...especially China..... Hopefully there will be a Universal Securities Highway.... Like an IB on steroids...

What US politicians fail to understand is that taxes are just passed on to someone else..... The biggest point totally missed is that less is more..... A simple 10% consumption tax and no other taxes would increase the US tax take many fold..... Companies from all over the world would...

If things change.....then there will be other venues to the goal..... Man....would it not be great to be truly independent....and not have your livlihood threatened by idiots .... So much for thinking a trader is his own boss.... Still vulnerable to fucking idiotic and toxic...

Here it is in very simple terms... This is a real estate problem.... Now let's talk as if it were a stock.... ........................................................ A lot of companies put 3 to 10% down on a $240 stock.... The stock went down $70.....and will go down another...

No...Gabelli would laugh at how stupid it is....and he and his pals would spend a few million for a few lobbyists....and just look at it as the cost of doing business..... People like Gabelli are used to dealing with nonsense..... And people like Gabelli are not going to let shit like this...

Look.... The only thing that is really going to help this situation is how to upwardly influence the value of a house.....and to keep people from walking away.... All this problem is...in simple terms is that there are 15 million homes at $240,000 par value....that went to $70,000.....and...

What you might want to think about is who really does the most trading today......and if they have any political clout.... Big pension plans and the largest pools that have a lot of stocks.... Hey obviously Dean...had a little influence with regards to debt securities.....people like...

Look..... Just ask those people who owned buildings in the tax reform act of 1986..... Anything can happen... Obama benefited from and supported individuals in FNM, FRE.... McCain says he's a spendthrift...but his wife has been known to spend $500k a month on AXP...his kid spent...

the focus and expertise would be on laws rules and regulations and not on the functions of trading. ...................................................... Exactly The market discovers prices.... Not the SEC.....

The SEC.... Needs to be banned.....proven idiocy.... And replaced by people who are in touch with the markets..... SS ban....effective ? ........................................... Much like depending on Paulson/Bernanke for solutions.... Have not been right yet..... Nor has...

Jim Rogers for PRESIDENT

This would not only finish trading equities and bonds.... This would finish equities and bonds being in the US.... ................................................... I have mentioned many times that legal largesse is one of the main problems in the US.... This type of legal largesse...

A new rule should be imposed.... No academics and their unproven theories allowed in the real world.... Look at what globalization, etc..., etc.... Good businessmen need to be given incentives to be in some government roles... Academics need to stay in their safe world.....while the...

Prices would be normalized..... Savings would be rewarded.....

The real question at hand is how can the prices be restored to where they used to be......or how can one rid itself of the lost value....if one cannot replace what created such high levered valuations previously. This loss is not going away. If the losses are not incurred now, they will be...