Jon, you seem young. If you've never seen the action during a recession don't make the mistake of outsmarting yourself. Have some humility here,...
It is all about supply and demand. Money frozen in toxic waste reduces supply. Fed money printing increases supply. Foreigners clamoring to get...
I know the strategy you are using. Add commissions and slippage and it dies. Add more people who know about it and you'll be losing money on it....
Greenspan lent credence to the lobbyists but it was the congressmen themselves who were in favor of the deregulation. No con was involved except...
I haven't heard a single competent economist talk favorably about the plan. That worries me.
NeoRio1 maybe you could give an example of what something that is presidential in your view looks like? From what I know of Obama he's...
American banks? Wells Fargo US Bancorp For another option I hear Toronto Dominion looks fairly good too. Considering its increasing...
How does one "prove" oneself in the OP's mind? Obama is proving himself everyday from what I can see. What is an adequate test? Every test...
I'm not sure this addresses the problem. The problem from what I understand is that the conveyor belt of money has seized up. It is not...
Well before we get to the $62 trillion in CDS most people have never dealt with and probably don't know about maybe it is good to bear in mind the...
In truth it is not the moderator's job. It is the audience's. If the audience checks out and verifies the facts, then it becomes clear that the...
An Austrian School critique of Milton Friedman regarding the Great Depression: http://mises.org/story/2442 Note even Milton Friedman a noted...
A recent IMF study says that the projected loss of economies involved in recent financial crises averaged around 16% of GDP. The 700 billion...
Dave hate to point this out but summa cum laude means "with supreme honors" so technically speaking that would be top of the class. That said...
George W. Bush is a former governor of Texas. Did his experience help? What was obvious from the way he governed was that he used the buddy...
What kinds of charts does he put up? Was looking at the daily for these four stocks on June 6 trying to decipher what he was seeing and I...
So Port1385 what was his stated reason for shorting these issues when he did back in June?
An article on the Great Depression http://www.econlib.org/LIBRARY/Enc/GreatDepression.html Some excerpts I thought interesting: "The...
Cross your fingers and hope things don't get worse.
On the other hand GS gets to say Warren Buffett is a large investor. Not insignificant in turbulent times like these where confidence is at a...
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