Monkey Business Keith Chen's Monkey Research Adam Smith, the founder of classical economics, was certain that humankind's knack for monetary...
All sorts of politicians want your vote in two days, but do any of them DESERVE it? Perhaps you should ask them. Here's the message I emailed to...
Until yesterday I wasn't aware that (an approximation of) Nazi concentration camps still exist in 2010, in North Korea. As the descendant of an...
I already know how this poll will go, and my point is that it doesn't have to fucking be this way! The U.S. used to be a truly free country....
Four years into the Great Depression, Alcohol prohibition collapsed under its own stupidity. Today, the Great Recession threatens the 'war on...
<b> In fact, the drug is <I>so</i> dangerous, that possessing even a small amount can directly lead to armed thugs bursting into your home and...
Ok, I admit Atlas Shrugged and Fountainhead are flawed works. As fond as I am of these books, they can only 'convince' people who are already...
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Yes, it has happened again. Why does it make sense to keep banning Optional777's detractors (who tend to be constructive, well-liked ET...
Note that if you're not 100% sure whether you count as retail or institutional, that means you're retail.
I've always thought that the genuinely successful <b>retail</b> forex trader hangs out with Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the honest...
If you could could ask Optional777 any personal question you wished, and <b>actually be able to get a straight answer</b>, what would your...
<b><i>$50,000 to anyone who can disprove Sina's charge that Islam's prophet was "a narcissist, a misogynist, a rapist, a pedophile, a lecher, a...
For feds, more get 6-figure salaries Average pay $30,000 over private sector By Dennis Cauchon USA TODAY The number of federal workers...
Witches. Homosexuals. Political dissidents. 'Promiscuous' females (includes rape victims). Heretics/atheists. Academics/intellectuals/teachers....
'Muslim scientists'! :D :D :D In other breaking news, Obama also announced multi-million dollar funding plans for Jewish basketball players,...
Yet another blow against fiat paper 'money'. (See: http://www.kitco.com/ind/Nathan/oct022009.html ) _______ CME to allow gold as collateral...
Sensory defensiveness is a condition defined as having "a tendency to react negatively or with alarm to sensory input which is generally...
Libertarians are fiscally conservative and socially liberal. That means that regardless of which ugly head of the <i>Republicrat</i> hydra...
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