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Force quotes to be in sixteenths, the way they used to be and HFT disappears.

What does that even mean?

According to the one other source I found, it wasn't the video which led to the charges. He recorded a subsequent phone call with the police department without notifying them that …

Certain rights can be signed away. A right that cannot be given up, even willingly, is called an 'inalienable' right. Thus in most of the world today, you cannot willingly sell you…

While I agree with your larger point, that retribution (and worse) is not justice, I wouldn't put too much weight on the study you mention. It's extraordinarily difficult to 'give …

Originators lend the money and sell the loan. It is agreed that the originate to sell model has perverse incentives. However, the point is that home borrowers are not the victims o…

Absolute twaddle. This is not science -- this is the science industry. This work is so subjective on so many levels as to be worse than worthless -- rather than increasing humaniti…

The first sentence is not an argument nor is it true. The next sentence follows it up with a non sequitur hypothetical. Let's say his aging mother died and he continued to cash her…

Threatening to bankrupt someone with a nuisance lawsuit that has no merit is not looked favorably on by judges, and a lawyer who says as much risks sanctions from both a judge and …

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When you live in a city, most merchants deliver.

Intellectual property absolutely is rent-seeking. It brings the full weight of government to enforce an artificial monopoly, for the pragmatic end of encouraging the creation of wo…

In fact 100 years ago it was quite the opposite. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1907

Again I raise the possibility that laws were not broken. There may have been instances of fraud, but its more than likely that the mess was largely the result of of groupthink and …

There is the possibility that despite the populist rancor, no actual laws were broken.

tb;dr

What's astounding is that anyone pays any attention to "Occupy Wall Street". It's a big circle jerk between some hippies in need of a bath and lefty-media types.

For the sake of argument lets say time spent on line = revenue. This picture shows us top line numbers. What about costs? I suspect that Google's cost for delivering content is mar…