A casino is fine as long as consumers and producers are the only ones invited. When the speculators come in they screw everything up.
The US empire officially ended on January 20, 2001.
Then who is it due to? Everyone is a margin trader in this market including producers, funds, institutions etc.
There is plenty of liquidity in the real market between real consumers and real producers. More money is spent on oil and related products than...
Actually speculators cannot sell short in a massive (yet artificial) uptrend - unless they want a margin call.
We don't need price controls. We need a system where actual demand from actual consumers and actual supply from actual suppliers are what...
Consumers and producers that actually plan to make or take delivery. Not gamblers, speculators, funds, manipulators etc. that have no intention...
So when are we going to stop allowing casinos to determine the price of gas and food?
There is no relationship whatsoever between the true economic value of oil and the gambling activities that occur at NYMEX and ICE. The CEOs of...
What is really stupid if you think about it is the fact that trading of stocks is much more tightly regulated than the trading of commodities....
I think you are right. The increase in oil price is only 99% speculation.
"The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent" I could see oil going to $200 or higher. But it will be back below $70...
Oil crisis simple solution - outlaw margin trading of commodities - why not? As others have pointed out, it would be very easy to pop the...
Speculation or fundamentals - which is the primary cause of the oil price spike?
Why not? He has done it the last few times.
I thought they only sold the mortgage servicing business. Did they sell ALL of Option One including the subprime mortgages?
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/edbdbcf6-f360-11dc-b6bc-0000779fd2ac.html We will never have a perfect model of risk By Alan Greenspan...
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSL1491971920080314 Weak dollar costs U.S. economy its No. 1 spot Fri Mar 14, 2008 5:17pm EDT...
Just enormous losses virtually every day. As for the endorsements John Hill is a publisher not a trader, Price Headley is not a profitable...
A while back I was on an email list that was getting the daily results from a managed account program he was promoting. I've never seen anyone...
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