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    Tony Fell: Reflections on the financial crisis and the way ahead

    "Thomas Carlyle called economics the “dismal science.” How right he was. I have always said that governments, banks and dealers should have as many economists on staff as possible to increase their chances of having one that’s “right”." Tony Fells - good one no recovery for 10...
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    Taleb: Stimulus Made Ecomony Worse

    Taleb was interviewed on BNN Friday, said he thought the Nobel Prize for Economics was the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for Literature - not bad http://watch.bnn.ca/squeezeplay/september-2010/squeezeplay-september-24-2010/#clip352544
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    Bernanke: Slowdown since spring remains a puzzle

    "Housing contributes to GDP in two basic ways: through private residential investment and consumption spending on housing services. Historically, residential investment has averaged roughly 5 percent of GDP while housing services have averaged between 12 and 13 percent, for a combined 17...
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    utilities: 'UK opens world's biggest offshore windfarm'

    oh-ohhhh! 'The Thanet wind farm will milk us of billions' "In all the publicity given to the opening of "the world's largest wind farm" off the Kent coast last week, by far the most important and shocking aspect of this vast project was completely overlooked. Over the coming years we...
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    Silver

    told ya
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    utilities: 'UK opens world's biggest offshore windfarm'

    Lot more than i expected and seems the UK is the largest user of the technology
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    utilities: 'UK opens world's biggest offshore windfarm'

    surprised to learn there were any offshore farms, much less the UK currently has the largest suspect 'windfarms' are a long way behind solar but are the companies behind the farms up and coming ? - mostly in Europe ? "The eight lines of turbines, running north-west to south-east, cover a...
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    24 hours in the sovereign debt market

    "Ireland, Greece and Spain sailed through crucial debt tests with successful bond issues on Tuesday, cooling concern that the eurozone is slipping into a new financial danger area. Ireland's government public debt agency said it had placed bonds worth 500M euros due in 2014, with demand...
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    Recommend me a futures broker firm that will take in $3000 for intraday ES

    levitation, you'd be playing in a very dangerous game do you have student loans to repay ? one of the major threats of futures trading is 'overloss' this occurs when the price goes against your position, blows thru your stop, and your trade is finally closed a few thousand dollars below...
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    Is there a website that shows how many contracts traded for the day?

    historically, the highest volume usually occurs between 7-10am PST i can get the volume off the free NinjaTrader demo but also use this site: http://www.barchart.com/futures/ clk on the chart icon and then the timeframe - 60min you want to view
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    eurusd / 6E new Bull market ???

    last week's post was crap the end of the AB and i had missed it . . . . . couldn't see the forest for the trees it actually ended on Thur Sep 9 around 7pm pst end of the B leg higher than the start of the A - bullish the price topped at the 76.4 of the Aug 6-24 HH-LL fibo although even...
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    'What happened to Europe's collapse ?'

    "The much anticipated economic demise hasn't happened. Looks like the Continent's bust was a bust." Michael Elliott, contributor, On Friday September 17, 2010, 5:30 am EDT http://finance.yahoo.com/news/What-happened-to-Europes-hftn-1314322966.html?x=0
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    What did the Fed say or do to cause the deleveraging?

    while i understand little of what and how the 'financial crisis' occurred i don't believe the Fed to be directly responsible before or after the event, only another nail what i believe to have provided the foundation for it all was the - 'Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000'...
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    How exactly does central bank intervention in forex work?

    i don't have the answer to your question i don't trade the yen but remember the last time they intervened, and while the BoJ announced is would be intervening, don't know there was a date and time pre-announcement for that intervention - but it would obviously be desirable information, to...
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    The Creature from Jekyll Island

    'the movie' - Griffin's presentation at the time of the book's release 'The Birth of the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank - How usury destroyed America' - - 71mins http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8484911570371055528# http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._Edward_Griffin
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    eurusd / 6E new Bull market ???

    the price is finally evolving into something recognisable enough to me to predict 3 trades - 2 buys 1 sell on the basis the price is forming an AB base buy 1 comes in around the 50/61.8 fibos area, previous Aug 24 LL of 1.25871 this buy would go to the 1.290 area and be c of an abc...
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    financial crisis - CBC's doc 'Meltdown' and movie 'Inside Job'

    sorry about the non viewing maybe it's got something to do with copyright - they want the opportunity of selling the series
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    Algo's section?

    what about a 'Trading Systems' forum ? then you've got your Algos thread within it Moving Averages thread MACD thread Simple 4 Hour trading system thread 5 minute MACD trading system KG Trapping Mode system MaksiGen Trading system Fibonacci Trading System Simple Scalping System etc...
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    financial crisis - CBC's doc 'Meltdown' and movie 'Inside Job'

    'Meltdown' 4 part series started last night, can be viewed online - 45min "Doc Zone has traveled the world - from Wall Street to Dubai to China - to investigate The Secret History of the Global Financial Collapse. Meltdown is the story of the bankers who crashed the world, the leaders who...
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    'The Traders Who Skip Most of the Day'

    "At Briargate, Stock Market's Open and Close Is All That Matters. Then, Golf." "On the day the "flash crash" bludgeoned the stock market and chaos swept over the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, the founders of Briargate Trading were at the movies. Rick Oscher and Steven Rubinstein...
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