Just 4 states you say... but they represent about half of the housing wealth in the US. Martin
Absolutely. What's yours? Your analogy with Chile implies direct US interference. Chile was saved in spite of Pinochet, not because of him....
OK, everything that ever goes bad is our fault. I get it now. What is this, third grade? Read the damn book. So what's your suggestion...
Worst possible solution, one that certainly would not nip the problem in the bud. Do you think American influence, democracy and free market...
You think that the Ayatollah, Ahmadinejad, Hamas, Chavez, and the Taliban are the result of American NON-involvement? It must be nice in your...
<i>First there is no such a thing as peak oil advocate, just like there is no gravitation advocate. Peak oil is a fact, get use to it.</i> I am...
The problem is that it seems so easy to understand. Hence ignorant cowboys like you and our President really think that geopolitics is no harder...
The minimum age is not a statutory requirement, the company can choose any minimum age (no greater than 21 years old) when they set up the plan. I...
You might just foreclose though, get out of your underwater investment. Then the bank has to get the property off its books in an auction or...
That's precisely my point: companies only derive value from the probability that they will deliver future cash flows to investors. You can make...
Stocks are claims on the cash flows generated by a corporation. The market value of a company is the present value of all expected future cash...
Or maybe, just maybe, those with the most to gain from the extreme polarization of American politics have realized that the sensible center is...
How so?
I can't believe this. You idiots nominated George W. Bush in 2000, when if you had any goddamn sense we could have had President McCain for the...
Tell that to the Japanese. Martin
The flight to safety you're observing is a short term phenomenon. Only a trader would make that correlation. A short term stock market rally on...
I don't mind waiting a few years. The last example I can think of was COMS/PALM and that arbitrage took at most two years to be wildly profitable....
What do y'all think about VMW versus EMC? Each EMC share controls 0.157 shares of VMW. That means, at today's closing prices, $12.65 of every EMC...
All I can say is it's a great question & I'd also love to hear if anyone has relevant experience.
It's not so bad here, at least not yet. Most people were buying houses with option ARMs and 5 to 7 year resets, they're still paying teaser rates....
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