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yes, and is Paulson's withholding of the other half of the tarp his belief that Damocles' sword will drop completely ?

'a giant black hole has just been discovered at the centre of our galaxy that is four million times heavier than our Sun it has been determined that the black hole's gravity is so great that it has been sucking up all the money of the banks and other financial institutions - who apparently...

yes. don't know if it's slow or not, Shaw states for the service i pay for: "Up to 10 Mbps download speed, 1 Mbps upload speed" which seems very fast but i really don't understand what Mbps means since i presume the correct term for data transfer should be the Kbps measure speed's...

huh. didn't know the individual states were responsible for the benefit payments in Canada it's a federal responsibility, same in UK and EU countries (?) so are the benefits paid higher in some states than others ?

the vix has some way to go before it tops the oct 1987 h of 170+ but does look like it'll go higher - 120 anyone ?

thanks forsalenyc for the link changing the subject some, does anyone know the speed of order entry/fill trading eminis when using NinjaTrader with the ZenFire feed ? and do the computer specs make any difference to speed/latency ? from Vancouver, Canada cable/Shaw to: chicago ...

yea i'm getting hangs requiring close, re-open IE and use History to go back to forum

certainly go out of their way to sugar-coat it don't they "What Geithner and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke failed to tell Congress, President-elect Barack Obama and the American people is that CDS dealers don't post any effective collateral at all with other dealers. So much for the legal...

top of the list must be re-legalising cds, derivatives, swaps betting — the 1907 law banning such activity 'revoked' in 2000 http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=142732

http://www2.barchart.com/mktcom.asp

thanks, good synopsis

there were tens of thousands of 'demonstrations' in China in 07 - sorry can't immediately find a reference tho the figures are government released besides the lack of 'democracy' China's problem is there's no Law so the common wo/man have No rights. besides the large Communist government...

surprised it hadn't already been posted, you'll read the SEC still isn't prepared to do the whole 9 yards of regulation others believe it should http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i_mRZNfX8KzLDJwYh1IM0g-jb7FAD94REJT80

"The House of Commons has gone dark until Jan 26/09 when prime minister Harper will return and present a federal budget the next day followed by a confidence vote. prorogue/prorogation ends a parliamentary session and allows the government to start again at a later date with a fresh throne...

via wilburbear: 'investors have asked to withdraw 36 percent of the assets' : http://www.reuters.com/article/innovationNews/idUSTRE4B14MU20081202 http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=146636

while you're waiting to decide, maybe ByLoSellHi's post will cheer you up - http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=142152

UK government's 5 criteria for joining the euro: http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/docs/efaq.htm#criteria

here's a reference: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/breakingviewscom/3541719/Hedge-fund-redemptions-force-a-rethink.html Last Updated: 11:38AM GMT 02 Dec 2008 By Jeff Segal, breakingviews.com ' With fewer than 30 days remaining in 2008, investors’ last opportunity to pull money out of...

and lets not forget that any money the US spends to support their economy is an economic benefit to Canada without Canada having to spend a cent

Xerox Canada gave Xerox US $300M some months ago, similar Circuit City in their bankruptcy filing received permission to withdraw Canadian Circuit City profits, how many other such transactions - profit raids are occurring isn't known Canada's S&P/TSX Composite index (Interi (^GSPTSE)...