Apparently some here have missed news re Russia causing some problems. Also Muslims. Or on smaller scales the internal problems in Italy, Greece, etc. There was an article where someone was proposing discrete time units for trades to be executed. It ...

The Holy Grail Of Trading Has Been Found: HFT Firm Reveals 1 Losing Trading Day In 1238 Days...

Been a few deaths of high level executives on Wall Street too. Think it is at JPM that I read three have died plus more at other firms. As many possible perps for this girl as for JFK. Disgruntled investors, drug lords who have found themselves ...

Bitcoin firm CEO found dead after ‘suicide’

Would be better to stop buying mortgages unless they are 20% down and income verified. Nobody has reason to believe anything much from government data.

Fed's Fisher- US should halt major asset purchases when feasible

Golly, the article doesn't say what Mark is going to do with the worthless dollars sucke..uh...I mean people paid him for BTC's. does say the GOX is down to $232. The positive spin is that some drug dealers are probably losing big.

Mt. Gox's CEO resigns from Bitcoin Foundation

So we have 1) the 2008 housing crash that really only brought prices back down to the long term trend line. 2) Higher productivity and automation with more coming including a robotic hamburger flipper that replaces three humans. 3) College grads who ...

Is the US in real trouble? We're about to find out

Clicked back to the last NFP release and looked at the chart. While this last one was a giant miss the predictions have been closer since about 2006. Don't know what this author is smoking but NFP is jobs and jobs are what people need not only for ...

Nobody Should Care About U.S. Jobs Numbers

The plan in the article would only reduce the trade windows from 7 milliseconds to 50 milliseconds. Don't see how that would help put the retail trader on an equal footing. To throttle the high frequency trades it would be much simpler to require a ...

Declawing Speed Traders Is Goal of Stock Market Revamp Proposal

The Fed might try to dazzle with multi colored sparkly light in our eyes but actually shedding light?

Fed to shed light on frozen U.S. economy

After you buy any btc from the creators for dollars there is nothing that requires them to buy them back. Glitch, crash, whatever. You are at the mercy of finding other suckers.

Bitcoin bug causes massive sell-off

Are they trying to pass off this Employed/Population Rate as the Workforce Participation Rate? Not the same definitions.

Fed study suggests U.S. labor market rosier than thought

How could a super currency be more stable when it would include Argentina, Turkey, and weak euro nations like Italy? It might be more controlled but by who? The UN mighty midgets mob? Gold standard is anachronistic price fixing. Lebanon has almost ...

Replace dollar with super currency: economist

The taper is overdue evidenced by the increasing multi trillion dollar horde banks hold in excess reserves.

Nothing will deter Fed from tapering this week

"I have a phone and I have a pen". That's Obama saying he will "negotiate" with the opposition and if they do not agree with him he will simply issue executive orders. Yes, he is a puppet called to put his big boy pants on and make read the ...

Obama Rushes to Keep Last Year’s Promises Before Address

Their government tried to peg the peso 1 to 1 dollar. Failing that the official rate is 7.88 but people are willing to pay 13 pesos for 1 dollar. Another glaring example of why a free and open market is the only way that works.

Argentina to Ease FX Controls After Peso Devaluation

Birth rates in Germany, France, and England are barely maintenance levels. If the projection is based on population increases that must mean immigration which has had a large Muslim component. We might not recognize any of these countries by 2030 or ...

Will British economy overtake Germany by 2030? Pigs might fly!

If you like your insurance policy you can keep your insurance policy. Government has lost all credibility.

The US Employment Situation - December 2013

Less jobs AND a whopping .3 drop in unemployment! Well golly shucks, that ain't nothing. I mean if you like your insurance policy you can keep your insurance policy.

Payrolls in U.S. Rise Less Than Forecast; Jobless Rate at 6.7%

Is France getting prudish while the US is getting slutty?

Francois Hollande threatens legal action over affair claims

Interesting. Their government participating in capitalism. Before anyone thinks why not the US government too ask how they could lose money on a whore house like the IRS did. Ask how much fraud, embezzlement, and outright theft would occur. Oh yeah, ...

All Norwegians become millionaires as oil fund balloons

Yup, America bashing it is. Actually that is easy to do. But it ignores all the good the US has done. Like saving Europe twice. Like relegating royalty to vacation attraction status. Well I could go on but it is pointless to debate with comments ...

15 Billionaires Who Were Once Dirt Poor