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http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/20090628224351data_trunc_sys.shtml I don't believe organic matter is required to produce oil.

Probably the main reason it was never invested was that a) There are fraudulent practices and front-running all over wall street going unpunished by the SEC, and b) the Fed has ensured that the stock market is perpetually overvalued and at risk of a massive sell-off as debt in the system...

The effects of monetary supply are considered independently from other supply/demand factors. "ceteris parabis"

Because Madoff WAS one of "those guys"... Lots of indirect ties to organized crime: www.deepcapture.com

Okay, now imagine how low the prices would sink without Fed involvement and government subsidies of $8000.

Whoever wrote this article was a moron. Printing money has never worked in history and will never work. Look up John Law & France circa 1700's for example. Of course printing money will lower yields in the face of deflationary forces, SO WHAT? All this is going to do is cause more silly...

Of course it doesn't eliminate unknowns, but it sure reduces the unknowns... And then when you add in the ability for HFT to front-run Market orders... then they have market and limit orders covered... further reducing the unknown.. I'm not a trader but sometimes it takes people outside of...

http://www.nyxdata.com/nysedata/Default.aspx?tabid=808 NYSE Amex OpenBook provides a real-time view updated every second of the Exchange's limit-order book for all NYSE Amex-traded securities. NYSE Amex OpenBook lets traders see aggregate limit-order volume at every bid and offer price, thus...

http://www.nyxdata.com/nysedata/Default.aspx?tabid=808 NYSE Amex OpenBook provides a real-time view updated every second of the Exchange's limit-order book for all NYSE Amex-traded securities. NYSE Amex OpenBook lets traders see aggregate limit-order volume at every bid and offer price, thus...

Well, anyone can fund the gov deficit by purchasing T-bills... Bankers just happen to fund most of it probably. Of course, the Fed has proven it can't fix the price of money and it should be left up to market forces. The only money printing should be done by government in times of need or for...

Absolutely irrational. Does not account for: a) The lack of "common sense" behind creating money out of thin air. b) Possible systemic effects that are wide-ranging, long-term and difficult to decipher. c) The raging inequity of printing money. d) Pushing the cost of saving lower...

The most money a single company can really lose is the total value of its assets at firesale prices at the lower level OR the total discounted free cash flows available to the firm in perpetuity, should the firm be re-possessed and re-run by bankers. Of course, it's still a massive systemic...

I've seen CRE loss estimates in the trillions (2-4).

Okay, so Tudor had good instincts to recognize a bubble when he saw one. But other than that, the only thing I grasped from the video was that his trading 'methodologies' were, simply put, idiotic. Pure luck that he made money the way he did.

Yes, because banks using discount window capital to acquire oil tankers and arbitrage contango opportunities doesn't just smack of inefficiency. [/sarcasm] This is exactly the problem with commodities futures markets. If speculation drives up the futures price, it presents an arbitrage...

http://www.cnbc.com/id/32203855 So these guys created and distributed the toxic assets, and now they are going to use their 'expertise' to repurchase the assets at 30 to 50 cents on the dollar (probably still won't get much of a return) and re-possess the real estate and liquidate it? a)...

Aww no comments =[ It just got put on the front page too (top left): www.zerohedge.com

Couldn't the sales price increase be due to: 1) People with larger homes and mortgages liquidating and relocating to smaller homes (the rich have been hit the hardest percentage-wise by the collapse of the housing market...) 2) All of the larger/pricier vacant houses on the market being...

Let's use a more realistic example: START OF YEAR $100 initial money supply (net worth). Banks lend $400 combined at t = 0 END OF YEAR Interest at 5% for the year = $20 Principal repayment = $400 -- $80 consumer net worth -- Ergo, with 0% increase in the base money...

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/wall-street-having-our-cake-and-eating-it-too-call-pragmatic-action Any comments? -- The past few weeks have seen a spate of announcements detailing upward surges in U.S. investment banking compensation expenditures. Goldman Sachs began by boosting...