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I love how members of Congress are up in arms about porn watching at the SEC. First of all, I wonder how many people in Congress were watching porn at the same time "on the taxpayer's dime" and second of all, Congress pushed "home ownership for everyone" allowing the financial crisis to pick up...

As long as you take care of all the unwanted babies because of lack of choice, I don't have a problem with no abortions.

My point is that Ben Stein comes across as an expert (or at least he would like you to believe that). But he is absolutely terrible at forecasting anything financially related. Not only that but he comes across as arrogant, similar to Cramer. A deadly combination.

History has shown that Ben Stein is almost always wrong.

After what happened during the financial crisis, I don't understand how anyone can think that regulating derivatives is a bad thing. Just because Obama is suggesting it doesn't mean it isn't right.

Wow that blows. My condolences, but you'll make it back and more. I've had a few large hits to the PnL. In my experience, it takes me at least a week to recover mentally and get back in the groove.

Maybe it's because Cramer is a complete sham/moron and he deserves the brunt of the attack. Maybe it is based on Cramer's history, rather than what he said today.

Sorry that TaxCut has the same problems, it alleviated some problems in the past for me that TurboTax had - sorry I got your hopes up. Anyway, have you considered just truncating the first digit of all your totals, printing it out, and then handwriting the extra digit(s) at the front of those...

In the latest IB Communique there is this: I tried doing this but when I run the Gateway it says my TWS version is no longer supported. Has anybody had any luck getting the Gateway to run (via the IB API option)?

Yes, I mean the US would never make shorting of certain financial stocks illegal or any other stock that petitioned to be included.

Don't fool yourself into thinking that the government is trying to stabilize house prices for the people who own the houses. This is all about the banks - they still have too much house inventory. The purpose of the government's actions are to save the banks - they couldn't give a rat's ass...

Not trying to be a smartass, but if you stick to your rules but you change your rules often, isn't that the same thing as not sticking to the rules? If I were in your boat, I would just stop trading and convince myself that I really had an edge.

I have a better question. How long will it take for you to stop being a jackass? 1 more post 5 more posts 10 more posts Never (even money favorite to win)

Man, that is a great Pelosi-esque idea! I'll be waiting for my Alice in Wonderland ticket to arrive in the mail.

The rule is a joke and everyone knows it. However, it is much better than bringing back the old uptick rule. So I guess a good compromise. But anyone who thinks this is going to calm markets in times of panic is just horribly misguided. If I had to guess, this will only cause the down moves in...

Down with all new forms of taxes. Just raise the income tax instead.

Yes - VERY successful. However, it won't be in the future because of insolvency issues. So in that respect, overall you must see that it will end up being a complete failure unless you are living in la-la land. Anyone paying into Social Security right now is going to get hosed. I wouldn't depend...

Except for the fact that he has delusions of grandeur, is a moron, and presents himself as a guru that has the answers to everything even though he has blown people out of the water repeatedly.

Yes because TurboTax apparently can't handle big numbers because the people who designed it are freaking idiots. Maybe they believe computers cannot handle numbers > 10M? I believe you can upgrade to a much more expensive TurboTax package that will be able to handle it (at least that is what was...

A hedge fund employs people to do a job. The food the employees buy while eating lunch employs waiters and restaurants which employs truck drivers to bring the food to the restaurant. The truckers pay fuel taxes that build roads. It's called an economy.