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I went to the link. I read it. Sounds weird. No wonder it's not airing on Dateline. I don't get the real rational for doing it. IF the supposedly con hfs/brokers/canadians etc. LEND money and OWN the shares why would they want to drive it down by naked short selling? OK. So, theorectically...

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000039&refer=columnist_currier&sid=aibtCLNIdfGc Greenspan Points to Dangers of a Volatility Trap: Chet Currier July 22 (Bloomberg) -- As he answered one vexing question about the financial markets this week, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan...

It's back up to 296 now. Where can we get afterhours price history?

what ya think? ======================== White House: Deficit Plummeting to $333B Wednesday July 13, 11:17 am ET By Andrew Taylor, Associated Press Writer White House Projects Budget Deficit Will Plummet to $333 Billion; Bush Credits Economic Polices WASHINGTON (AP) -- Surging revenues...

If this is not the sign that we are near a major top in the RE market, then I don't know what is! It's SCREAMING with RED FLASHING LIGHTS. What would it take for people to heed warnings signs? For God, himself to descend from Heaven and tell people to watch out! Even then people wouldn't listen...

Trailers selling for $1M?! Things are getting out of hand... ============================================ The crazy California real estate market has come to this: a million-dollar trailer. A two-bedroom, two-bathroom mobile home perched on a lot in Malibu is selling for $1.4 million...

Apparently, the Canadians are still asleep. prices have gone down even further!

Gold was extended? Wtf? Look at Oil. That's extended. Gold has been in a trading range forever.. A few failed breakouts.

nitro, Don't be hatin' bro! haha. Tenure isn't all that it cracks up to be. Some untalented people get tenured while others don't. The system is more political that you think. Do you know Jim Simons background? He was an MIT/Harvard/Berkeley math prof. He won one of the highest award in...

stephen, you are right. That stuff is Time Series 101. I'm sure it's not what RenTech uses.. LOL

They are math/physics phds. WTF do they know about incurable diseases? They didn't go to med school. duh. But they could have. And probably could make great contribution. Too bad how society/markets misallocate resources. It used to be if you are really smart and go to med school you could do...

I know higher interest = higher dollars. Higher dollars usually mean lower gold. But i didn't expect the drop to be that huge. oh well.

Holy cow!

Well, a lot of finance profs who write in Journal of Finance are rehashing stuff that has been around. About the new dude, I think the reason he doesn't sound ambitious cuz it's probably totally new to him. They hire on brilliance and talent. In fact, most of their employees never worked on...

If you agreed US has 350M people(which is wrong. according to U.S. Census it's closer to 290M). And you said 100M kids. Even by your exaggerated figure 350+100=450M . Not a billion the last time I checked my math. :D

Yep. Jim Simons is onto something. He's probably the most successful quant fund EVER! There are lots of so called quant funds out there. A la LTCM. Or even lesser well known ones. All of them are rather unoriginal. Using off the shelf standard stuff you can find in finance journals or even...

The Prez of the company is Norman Bates? hehe. LOL. J/K. His actual name is Norm Bates. Looks like a really cool product! Any demos?

China is a little slow on this. Perhaps they didn't realize that their economy was going to grow this fast this soon. A lot of things happened really fast in the last 5 years. Reportedly, there is a $1B/week of foreign investments are pouring into China! But look at Japan. They were a fast...

Of course, we don't have any imperialist ambitions when we "liberated" Iraq to secure energy resources... :D

This could get interesting.... =========================== BEIJING (Reuters) - Thousands of Chinese rioted in a dispute sparked by a lopsided roadside brawl, set fire to cars and wounded six police officers in an outburst likely to worry communist leaders in Beijing desperate to cling on to...