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This guy is so far removed from political (not economic) reality that it's not even funny. Ron Paul's best chance of ever running an economy would be to instigate a military coup in South America and establish his dream economy with the gold standard and no central bank. More realistic than ever...

The green shoot part of the story is "There are still factories in the UK". Expectations were that all of them went out of business :cool:

Let me guess.. 20% gap up on "less bad than expected" losses ? :cool:

Do Americans throwing a birthday party still give every guest a free iPhone? As a welcome present? Or are the good days over.. :cool:

The French "workers" usually only work Oct - April. They take the rest of the year off :cool:

It stinks? Try running a brick and mortar business (motels, gas stations, fast food joints, nail saloons) and see what margins are like in "real life". Why would you expect much better margins and way lower risk from a trading operation than from any other conventional business out there?

Let's hope that "force" won't suddenly turn into a "farce" :cool:

I'm running the API on Vista 64 bit and use Microsoft Excel to calculate and send orders to TWS. No problems at all.

Real disposable income per capita has been RISING in this recession, thanks to billions in government transfer payments and tax benefits. Sooner or later this will reverse and I can't wait to see retail sales THEN:

You can always emigrate, relinquish your US passport and offer your kids an independent expat lifestyle without Uncle Sam's fingers in your and your families' pockets.

Now we know what they meant when they said "contained" :cool:

Whew finally... God forbid the market could have had a down day after what feels like 10 up days in a row!! :cool:

Once the Chinese say there is "no bubble" and bad loan problems are "contained" we know troubles lie ahead :cool:

It is no coincidence that shovels and other garden tools, seeds and rural lifestyle/self-sufficiency/gardening books are selling like hot cakes the last couple of months. The First Lady getting her hands dirty. Who would've thunk?

Recently, my now 80 year old Dad told me a story when he came out of the train station on the day they emigrated and for the first time in his life walked through a Western European neighborhood he couldn't believe his eyes as people were out in their gardens, busy mowing and watering humongous...

Then maybe it's time for those non-college people to learn a new trick or two. What about those guys that lost their jobs in the textile, shoe and apparel industry in the 50s and 60s. Did they cry, whine and blame politicians or wages in Asia or South America? If America (and the rest of the...

How do you know they didn't? Post proof or at least a tiny hint they engaged in naked shorting otherwise your thread title is COMPLETELY misleading.

The above is a reason to rejoice, not a reason to become depressed. Environmentally unfriendly, $8 an hour jobs have successfully been moved to China. That's a positive, not a negative. Now those 18 workers that were laid off can find something more productive to do and something that...

A couple of hundred banks will fail this year alone. This has been known for months.

LOL that guy shorted a microcap with a market cap of 100m, then it gets called in and then whines how he will lose money? This has NOTHING to do with naked shorting. IB borrowed that stock and then it got called away. Plain and simple. The smaller the capitalization of the stock the more likely...