Recent Content by drtomaso

  1. Intelligent Design is not creationism

    Why is this a bad thing? How science responds to anti-intellectual pseudo-scientific, and I am sorry, but fraudulent and dishonest attacks is...
    Post by: drtomaso, Dec 19, 2008 in forum: Politics

  2. Stanford MBA vs Berkeley Financial Engineering

    I suspect what we are seeing now is actually more "loose" than previous- which isnt a good thing ;) Remember these degree's are relatively recent...
    Post by: drtomaso, Nov 11, 2008 in forum: Professional Trading

  3. Stanford MBA vs Berkeley Financial Engineering

    I wouldnt say that the CFA has the same degree of respect that a PhD has, but it certainly is a valued designation. My alma mater's night school...
    Post by: drtomaso, Nov 11, 2008 in forum: Professional Trading

  4. Stanford MBA vs Berkeley Financial Engineering

    It can- but isnt required for that sort of work. A degree in computer science is better suited to such roles as the business/product knowledge...
    Post by: drtomaso, Nov 11, 2008 in forum: Professional Trading

  5. The Truth About Commodities, including Oil - Complete Speculation

    I don't understand your argument at all. Please explain how it is possible to manipulate the market using unregulated exchanges? I'm not...
    Post by: drtomaso, Jun 13, 2008 in forum: Economics

  6. The Truth About Commodities, including Oil - Complete Speculation

    Those same nations then send their oil ministers on whatever TV news program is convenient to claim that there is no fundamental support for the...
    Post by: drtomaso, Jun 12, 2008 in forum: Economics

  7. The Truth About Commodities, including Oil - Complete Speculation

    While you are at it, please post charts showing where speculators are stock piling all the oil that they refuse to sell to consumers at lower...
    Post by: drtomaso, Jun 12, 2008 in forum: Economics

  8. Boone Pickens & Those Stealing From Consumers (& Investors/Traders) Should Be Hung

    Just because you are unwilling to pay it doesn't mean others aren't. Again, these "speculators", at the end of the contract period, are having no...
    Post by: drtomaso, Jun 5, 2008 in forum: Wall St. News

  9. Boone Pickens & Those Stealing From Consumers (& Investors/Traders) Should Be Hung

    Yes, because members of the US House of Representatives are bastions of honesty and fonts of both financial and legal wisdom. Again, if...
    Post by: drtomaso, Jun 5, 2008 in forum: Wall St. News

  10. Boone Pickens & Those Stealing From Consumers (& Investors/Traders) Should Be Hung

    Correct me if I am wrong, but at the expiry of the futures contract, the speculator holding a contract has two choices- take delivery of X barrels...
    Post by: drtomaso, Jun 4, 2008 in forum: Wall St. News

  11. Intelligent Design is not creationism

    You might check out this site by the National Center For Science Education - http://www.expelledexposed.com/ Basically, this movie is full of...
    Post by: drtomaso, Apr 18, 2008 in forum: Politics

  12. Greenspan Says U.S. Home Prices May Stabilize in 2008

    I wish this were true, but I think the recent bounce in the homies has more to due with the tax bill that would allow them to "carry-back" taxes...
    Post by: drtomaso, Apr 14, 2008 in forum: Wall St. News

  13. How much will real estate go down?

    Is this the same Alan Greenspan who thought creative mortgage products would be of benefit to consumers? The same guy who didn't see a housing...
    Post by: drtomaso, Apr 9, 2008 in forum: Economics

  14. how long will a recession last?

    Barry over at bigpicture.typepad.com has a good discussion of these very statistics. The way the NFP numbers are calculated changed between 2001...
    Post by: drtomaso, Apr 7, 2008 in forum: Economics

  15. Why is JP Morgan Chase such a beast?

    The hilarity is that at $2/shr, they probably could. They didnt even pay cash- it was something like 0.05 of a share of JPM per BSC. Throw in...
    Post by: drtomaso, Mar 17, 2008 in forum: Economics