At least part of the reason you get so many people with MS degrees applying for a job as a secretary is that the universities are cranking out MS...
Most VIX related black swan events I can think of involve a severe stock market drop.
Traditionally, the right wing kooks get elected after the left wing kooks debauch the money.
1/2 + 1/4 + 1/6 + 1/9 = 37/36, so the right ratios are 2% use 1/2 x 36/37 = 18/37 and its risk is 2% x 18/37 = 36%/37. 4% use 1/4 x 36/37 = 9/37...
When I've dealt with them, I've found the EPA to be pretty reasonable. Sometimes it can be hard to figure out what they want you to do as they...
Regarding the price of oil and international relations, has anyone else read the book "The Oil Card"? Here's the Amazon link:...
Your stomach produces muriatic acid with pH of 1 or 2. Unsurprisingly, you can stick your bare arm up to your armpit in HCl with no damage (uh,...
"Game changed. Looool the game never changes because human nature never changes." Over the long run, sure, the game never changes. But for the...
Gold is a miraculous substance. Drop by a scrap yard and buy a thousand pounds of electronic scrap (circuit boards). Remove the gold "fingers" and...
I think "dick" is the wrong word for Maverick74 or Laissez Faire. Of the two, Maverick74 is what we call a "troll".
I suspect you know a lot more about this, None Business, and I appreciate your comments. I don't buy mutual funds, just stocks, and what I find...
I also don't see the economy as broken. The stocks are going higher because the companies are making more money. And that may be because the...
Also sometimes there's an economy of scale that makes it better for a company to sell shares than to slowly grow size. Or there's a risk of...
I saw Nuance two different ways the last couple weeks. They're running a radio ad for a "pdf" software. This is in competition with Adobe I guess....
One of my buddies has a gold mine and I go up there and mess around with the locals regularly. Some of them are hobby miners and some do it for a...
Suppose a whole bunch of people bought houses, and then lost their houses due to finally being foreclosed, and then went into the rental market....
Over the long term, stock prices might follow intrinsic values that could be predicted. But the long term is very difficult to predict. And the...
Yes, depression began in 2007 to 2009 depending on exactly what you want to time it with. Maybe the leading indicators are best. And it's true...
Fascinating thread. Well written and thanks to the participants. My feeling on the depression is that it began in 2008 and it's still fairly...
Luck being far more important than skill, it appears there's a good chance I will end up owing taxes on my trading for 2015. I did a little over...
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