You guys have it all wrong. You WANT to buy when interest rates are HIGH not when they are low. I know this seems counter-intuitive but house...
SKF actually made a pretty good move in the last couple of hours but you shouldn't expect it to track the DOW...since it doesn't. It seems that...
What's to stop the banks from rotating the loans indefinitely? They can pay the monthly interest as long as they can put the borrowed money to...
You're right and I'm not even new to this topic. I guess even after all the talk I hadn't realized that the give away is already at least a...
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aXgyCIKKp6zQ&refer=home "Banks' borrowing at the rate climbed to a daily average of $13.9...
C++ (and C) are much faster than Java/c#/python/perl/etc. in any significant application. To say otherwise just shows a lack of experience. I've...
Yeah...sounds like solid advice but still you haven't said what the risk is. Except for the currency value going the wrong way (which happens...
That's true, but if IB (for example) through its partner banks suddenly paid 7% on USD and 1% on AUD I could just convert the money back (with the...
Yeah, it's all speculation but isn't that what we do here? :) But as you can tell I don't know enough about currency trading to just throw all...
I agree that some commodities are over priced but I don't think that they are radically overpriced. For example, oil is probably a little...
I'm curious about switching my USD to AUD and was wondering if anyone had any insight into the issue beyond what 'seems' to be obvious. (The...
For friends or chatting with guys 'investor' is plenty unless they want to know more. For women 'racecar driver' or 'brain surgeon' depending...
Yeah, the Republicans don't even attempt to hide the fact that they work day and night to maintain their power and wealth. The democrats have...
gnome, Capitalism is not fair. Nobody in their right mind would agree to it given its winner-take-all bias. In spite of its problems though,...
Building your own can't possibly be worth your time if you make anywhere near a good income. Four hours of fooling around with hardware =...
Hydroblunt, Well I think we agree in principal. I was merely pointing out that free markets can support 'investment banks'. You can call...
I think most of us here on ET know how a fractional reserve bank works. The problem is not 'fractional reserve' as even private banks based on...
Yes they are broke. But the Fed has "turned on the presses" in order to save the banks. Bernanke was smart enough to realize that lowering the...
You can add a field to the layout that shows whether a stock is shortable or not. Today everything I was watching was shortable except for...
That looks correct. There are two timings available (I guess this is in the bios) and you are using the 400Mhz timing. With DDR2 you need 2...
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