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Ha, he's a pompous idiot, IMHO... But he's working for an American network, pontificating on American TV, 'cause that's what he gets paid for. I guess it's what a lot of US peeps want, otherwise he wouldn't be there, no?

Oh, good god...

A lack of knowledge is a terrible thing... The cost of the monarchy to the UK taxpayer (I am one such) is arnd £35mm officially. A most conservative unofficial estimate is arnd £200mm. So it's not billions of dollars, that's for sure. The benefits of the monarchy, on the other hand, are...

I meant that she's frugal with taxpayers' money, actually (unlike other members of her family).

She's actually quite frugal, regardless of her supposed net worth (which sounds wildly overstated, given the assets). So what she allegedly did with the nuts makes sense (all of this, remember, is taxpayers' money). Respect.

I disagree with him about several things, for sure. However, unlike many others, I find him lucid, reasonable and logical.

Of all the Fed critics, Jim Grant is by far the most worthwhile and reasonable.

Fat finger (rumor that apparently a large stop order in ZB went in as a limit one by mistake)... Everything above 131-12 busted (or, rather, adjusted to 131-12), allegedly. Similar in ultras.

Really?

You don't really need to do it too often. Unless big moves happen or something like that...

This is the sort of thing at which MATLAB (and others, I' sure) excels...

That's perfectly cool... We all have our individual preferences.

Wasn't that what they tried to do with the Mujahideen against the Russians in Afghanistan? How did that work out?

And here I thought I've seen it all... This here is some funny sh1t.

Personally, I have never been a fan of Drobny's books. Just my Z$2c...

What is the logic that explains the causal link between the "carry trade in stocks" and yen? What about the precious metals and yen?

And modest, to boot...

Correction: FF futures are based on fed funds effective, not tgt. Well, you don't really have a choice when trading bond futures, 'cause they are quoted in price. You could always convert the price to rate for everything you trade and always think of yields, rather than prices.

There's a lot of literature on the subject. Google and you'll find smth...

I need to do the arithmetic... I always find it annoying that t-notes don't trade in decimals, like futures everywhere else on the planet. Off the top of my head, though smth doesn't look right...