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Actually, this has to occur if the US is going to become super competitive with regards to globalization. Government should simply be viewed as just another input cost to production....nothing more, nothing less.... To win the globalization trade war game, the free market will move to...

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=abNkm2qSrD5E&refer=home Rogoff has it right.....and there is nothing wrong with it.... Business models change and adapt all the time.... Globalization demands it.... ...

BATS is awesome..... Can't wait for BATS to get into Europe and Asia....... There is no reason for any order to cost over 20cents per 100 shares anywhere in the world....Shares are shares, a computer could care less about the label.

Globalization lends itself to being a labor cost/wages equilabrator. And nobody said it was going to be fast in transition, or not vague on US corporate accounting books. This means that some people actually have to move out of the country and actually take less in order to have a...

The solution to which firms get to fail is very simple. When a common stock based company fails, the common stock goes to zero, and subsequently the debt flounders until the stressed assets are put in a more productive mode. Usually this means a haircut on the debt, whereby the human...

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/15/business/15sell.php Lesson learned......maybe.....

The perfect US Bush/Cheney Energy policy.....that is for Bush, Cheney, and cronies.... http://www.247wallst.com/2008/08/drowning-in-gas.html

Bernanke has already proven his inadequacy by willfully being guided by the collusiveness between the larger banks and big US governmental politics. What is clear is that Bernanke is nursing along socialism, and has already proven himself to be educated beyond his intelligence, just as many...

How about the rule for excessive buying ?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121867281222439005.html?mod=loomia&loomia_si=t0:a16:g2:r2:c0.0943919 Hey, it's ok for Goldman to balk.....but not the others.... More SEC bullshit..... Oh, the ex Pres of GS, Paulson is now a persuasive FED employee........ Incredible ........

Let there be no mistake that the banks are differing as to how they disclose similar losses that most all of them are incurring. What is also clear is that fraud has been incurred as to how bonuses have been paid, and full disclosure in reporting of valuations has been inadequate. This is in...

Common Sense Will only find its way back when one looks in the phone book and finds very few, if any lawyers. Legal largesse is the big killer to capitalism.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/13/business/economy/13place.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&ref=business&adxnnlx=1218633305-mme+P37/GTPZXhggUXMtWQ

Legal largesse and the incestual SEC/Corporate legal largesse will drive the domicile of US exchanges to lessor legal largesse impositions. Nobody knows this better than the big investment banks. They took part in ECNs which won their game....just ask the NYSE.....and now it is a matter of...

One of the most coveted legal impositions of the SEC is full disclosure from company A to the public. With regards to the banks recent excessive leverage bets, just the opposite is ocurring. The SEC has recently tried to assist banks by negating short sale venues, which have had nothing to...

Ok..... If I want to sell 1,000,000 shares ....the SEC makes the cost 10x the amount of commission if I want to go long 1,000,000 shares.....it is as simple as that....and the process is so cumbersome that short term trading becomes impossible..... Tell you what ....SEC.... FO......You...

Naked Short Selling Unfortunately, naked short selling is not nearly as exciting as it sounds. It simply refers to a situation where a trader short sells a quantity of shares before he has actually borrowed them from an owner. Some of the commentary on naked short selling has become...

The other subject that must be understood....is that efficiency does not end here.... This is only the beginning of efficiency. Legal largesse is one of the highest and heinous costs to productive firms in the US. Make no mistake that firms such as BATS are laying the ground work for...

The SEC is a worthless entity made up of staid idiots wishing to move from the g scale to the corporate payroll.... Its useless interference in the markets will only make the cost of trading more expensive.....that's all....and will do nothing to stem wanted short positions.... And not...

Well now....Not too surprising considering..... One of the main instigators of the problem at hand, who has several hundred million large from the program....largely tax free upon acceptance of the high g scale postion...... Obviously.....getting a little too close for comfort..... Even...