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Huh? TIPS quoting below 100 in what? What TIPS?

Well, you can start here: http://www.espenhaug.com/black_scholes.html

They would say smth like that, wouldn't they? Somehow, I am a little skeptical about their conclusions...

Why don't you put such a calculator together yourself in Excel? It's a worthwhile exercise...

It's just bid/offer...

He periodically writes columns for Bloomberg about the current state of affairs. For example, this: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-08/fumbling-through-the-fog-around-too-big-to-fail.html

+1 I highly recommend this article by Simon Johnson, which makes a similar point extremely well: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/05/the-quiet-coup/307364/

Does... Not... Compute... Brain... Exploding... Must... Hold on... To... Sanity... Please... Help... To... Stop... Cannot...

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I have read the words above, but the sky is green and there's diffraction from the calcium atoms in the water I am drinking. Like yourself, I am very accomplished. I have obtained the silver medal in computational logistics, but the award ceremony is in a bunker in Papua New Guinea, so I...

What the hell is this? Is there any way to stop this jack hershey idiocy? Spouting random gibberish is one thing, but this is really too much... What possible qualifications does this clown possess to comment on basic statistical techniques?

Come on, Maverick, don't be silly... In general, I thought failures and bankruptcies are a necessary and even welcome part of capitalism? Isn't this a good thing? Creative destruction and all that...

Ah, sorry, didn't realise you we're being silly on purpose...

The decision to remove the floor has been expected by the mkt for months.

That's fine, no problem... I ain't gonna insist, it's all good.

Just a bit bored lately, you know, Maverick... It's summer, my mkt is quiet, so I am enjoying myself here with y'all fine folks. As to communism, like I said, I am interested in the subject. I was trying to get an idea of what people mean exactly when they talk about "communism". For...

Are you serious, peil? Your political zeal has overwhelmed your common sense again.

The risk you run when you put everyone on ignore is that you soon end up talking only to people who always 100% agree with you. And that is to a real conversation what masturbation is to real sex: pleasant, but repetitive and not that interesting.

Like GoC says, this is pretty well-covered by statistics. Maybe not quite high-school statistics, but anyways... The problem you're describing, jem, is identical to a very classical subject in statistics. Specifically, given a set of dice, which you roll an increasing number of times, how...

There's also Poland... In fact, in terms of casualties as a %age of the pre-war population, Poland seems to have been the worst affected among all the larger nations.