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The Macedonia you remember from your childhood is <b>gone</b>. It's 1/3 Muslim now. https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/mk.html

An <b>Imam</b> is the terrorist who leads the Muslim call to prayer. <i>"Alllahhu Akbar- Allah Hu Akbar! Ashad al-Mohammad Rasul Allah! La illah- illah la!"</i> Yes, I know the shit by heart. Don't ask. :D

Someone call my name? :p Academic types usually make lousy traders. They <i>think</i> they should stand at the very top of the market food chain, but to their chagrin they find impatient & aggressive ADD types with little or no formal education occupying their rightful throne.

Should hedge funds be regulated? Maybe, but NOT by the U.S. government.

Picking fights on the internet is a LoZZZzzzzzzzer's mission. :D

You have me confused with mahram. Hitting the 16-year-old scotch again? 16 is just too young- Male, or female.

Here's the original text: http://abcnews.go.com/images/WNT/02-02-03b.pdf That's one SICK bastard.

Yes, that's correct. (At least in regards to SPY & QQQQ. The DIA is an irrelevant index for pikers and CNBC journalists, and I have no idea what it does.)

No argument here... But he'd be living off the <b>principle</b>, not the interest. Why is the 'living off the interest' myth so popular? I really don't get it.

I'm not sure you're quite with me yet: <b>$100 in 1996</b> bought <b>more</b> goods and services than <b>$128 does in 2006.</b> http://www.minneapolisfed.org/Research/data/us/calc The cash portion of my portfolio loses purchasing power every day, despite the interest- Doesn't yours...

A free country that currently holds 400,000 political prisoners on drug prohibition violations.

I've always wondered something: Why were there no helicopters with rope ladders picking people off the towers before they fell? Sure, it's probably difficult to fly in all that smoke... but impossible? One more thing: Emergency chutes/slides would facilitate far quicker evacuations than...

Once again, the 'living off the interest' myth rears its ugly head... ________________________ OK, say you invest in T-bills. One year later, you've made a 5% return. Congratulations. The government taxes away 35% of your 'profit', leaving you with a 3.25% 'gain'. Over that year, the...

This is an important post, and deadly accurate.

This site has a broker review section here. PFG not winning any populatity contests, I see.

IMO, today's RIMM options volume wasn't unusually large at all, considering the circumstances. That's not the part that smells bad...

Well, the options investigation thing is real. But briefing really did report that RIMM's earnings release has been <b>delayed/postponed</b> as a result. The headline implied that the earnings release would be delayed by <b>days</b>, and wouldn't be coming out today at all. Obviously, that...

Background: About an hour after today's close, RIMM's earnings report still hadn't been released yet. Then came the headline (on briefing) I'm paraphrasing- "RIMM to delay earnings release due to options backdating problems". The stock instantly dropped from 86 to 80 in AH trading. Then...

This topic has come up before... http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=60080&highlight=poker http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=12455&perpage=6 http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=70730

That's what you get for not voting Libertarian!