Good investments in the '70's....how about computers, chips, software, pc's?
Pfft, Michigan, Montana, Arizona....Good riddance. Oklahoma can stay but only because I was born there...let's fight to keep Hawaii and New...
Market makers....
Yup...just look at the Roman Empire. Oh wait a minute, Rome collapsed from the inside. A strong military doesn't mean anything. Power comes...
The only strategy that works is to buy at the bottom and sell at the top...... ......or sell at the top and buy at the bottom.
Um...any buy and hold strategy is profitable over the last 25 years. Anything you bought in the 80's was golden. Isn't that the way bubbles work?
Majority of the growth in the last 20 years is mostly fake. Manufacturing, production, agriculture, and exports shrink yet we're supposed to...
Absolutely, I agree 100%. But market efficiency should not be considered when calculating GDP. Service sector jobs help by increasing the rate...
Is there an index anywhere that measures P/E ratios with equities in varying sectors? I've been trying to find one with no luck.
I don't think 2,000,000 service based jobs contribute anything to GDP in the first place. Shuffling money around does nothing for GDP. Only...
I don't see any difference between essential and non-essential commodities. There is a point with ALL commodities that people will stop paying....
Ditto on babypips...Also get over to FXCM and start a practice account as soon as you can. It's free, there's no time limit and you can download...
This is my favorite http://market-ticker.denninger.net/ Not really a daytrading blog but very informative nonetheless.
Demand: If you can explain where this comes from, then you'll be a rich man. Demand just happens on its own based on whatever people happen to...
I seem to remember him being bullish in 2008 too....and halfway through 2007
Too bad the economy is driven by supply and demand, not consumerism and employment...otherwise this would make sense.
Never said that it was... Your numbers a little conservative. Commercial paper relies on bank balance sheets which are clouded with SIV's and...
Every figure I've seen estimates sub-primes to be less than $1.5T with some estimates less than a trillion. Whatever the figure, it is...
If the total face amount of sub-prime mortgages is around $1.5T, why couldn't the government just go ahead and just pay off the sub-primes? If all...
Should we include the Governor with it?
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