Thanks for the reply, Rick. I have watched that video before, and was glad to watch it again. I'm still a bit confused about how money gets...
Sorry to drag this up again, but I still need help understanding this issue. Thanks to everyone who has contributed to the thread. I started...
I could be wrong (I often am), but I think that while debt-to-gdp was in fact higher after WW2, it is emphatically not in the low teens after...
Thanks for the answers. Lots to think about.
Thanks in large part to the handful of ET posters who are actually knowledgeable and helpful, I think I understand money creation through lending,...
These very long-term charts have been popping up a lot lately, but how can they possibly be valid without adjusting for inflation? Market caps...
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Somebody please correct me where I go astray in my thinking: So this is why it's so urgent to inject capital into the banks: it's not enough to...
Lots of different Ford preferreds at 20% of par, yielding 30-40%. Is the only issue here whether or not Ford goes bk, or am I missing something?...
So does this sudden less frequent success in locating shortable shares of some financial companies mean that we've all been naked shorting from...
I shorted 1000 WB right before the close. I tried, but did not get any WM.
Is there some reason why USO can't be shorted? I tried to short it at the open and my broker rejected the order because the shares couldn't be...
part of the problem is that my software was recalculating time premium using the after-hours quotes. That's why it fluctuated from .7 to .55...
Looks like it's about .54 now. I don't know if it's changed or if I miscalculated earlier. It was right after EOD so I wouldn't expect it to...
Front month, all strikes...
Does anyone know why the SPY calls have around $.70 more time premium than the puts right now? Ex-dividend was last week, so there must be...
Karl, how's the system doing?
I'd be willing to bet that, despite your problems with clickfraud, you still buy adwords. I forget the exact amount, but our clickfraud rates...
It is human nature to become vindictive when one feels slighted by the unwarranted success of others. Vindictiveness, is, however, a poor...
HoundDog, that's an interesting assertion you make. Can you expand upon it? I've been thinking a lot lately about the nature of "directional...
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