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the question for most "conservatives" (a species i doubt you've ever actually conversed with) is who's going to use your money best (you or the government). for government lovers, …

the disturbing part of the story isn't addressed: the real market maker who posts a market at cent increments all day long has his trade stolen by citadel for sub pennies (a produc…

"unsubstantively" = demonstrable political bunkering by the children around here. the ban is heartbreaking.

went negative pretty fast here! must be big demand for a package that helps you be massively wrong almost all the time as long as it reinforces your political religion.

here's nate silver's ingenious monthly odds generator: #odds [insert democrat here] wins sample(75:100, 12, replace=TRUE)

you'd make a lowsy newspaper salesman.

i'm informed and know next to nothing about two of the names. there are plenty of guys out there the poker world recognizes as better players.

"Jason Les, Dong Kim, Daniel McAulay and Jimmy Chou ..." are the pros? not exactly ivey.

you think the earth's climate 100 years out is remotely predictable?

my comment was to previous poster who used historical detonations as somehow predictive statistically. it isn't. as to whether we should be concerned, where was this article five m…

the historical occurrences of nuclear device detonation have nothing whatsoever to do with the chances they will be used going forward. i find his paranoia political. we should be …

it's hard to maintain relevance as a figure of import when you're shut in some embassy. his outlandish claims are a requirement of his position (attention).

along these lines, note how many news stories etc are currently touting the power of stock indices and index investing. given a shiller pe of ~28, i'd say most are in for a very ru…

r/news comments i avoid like the plague. i have that sub blocked on my front page (along with r/politics and "popular" candidate subs including but not limited to the bern, hillary…

Irish leader doesn’t regret calling Trump “racist and dangerous” that's not news.

stuck? i'm amazed at how negatively most europeans view "work".

i have a daughter (almost 4 yo). what did i just read?

my wife buys organic milk, and it kills me. it doesn't matter how many studies of composition and pesticides etc i provide, the religion of organic rules.

"If you want to make absolutely sure that stimulus money ends up spent in the economy, as opposed to saved or transferred abroad etc" i read this all time around here. money "saved…

chicago has done all that. california has a unique asset that enables it to enact all kinds of offensive tax etc legislation: climate.

i trade financial futures and cash equity. i realize ibanks offer leveraged bets on all kinds of nonsense to provide a "service", but pretty much any strategy known to humanity can…

yeah, i really don't know what these guys are talking about. the business day to day has been massively revamped by automation. there are hft ops that are blasting millions and mil…

would you like to earn -80 bps on some german schatz?