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by JLak
Mon Aug 08, 2011 2:59 pm
Forum: Finance and Investments
Topic: Financial topics
Replies: 29813
Views: 14768576

Re: Financial topics

OLD1953 wrote:A good electronics engineer would likely have some mathemetical insights into the market you won't get anywhere else
If you ask me to isolate the signal, you have to identify what 'the signal' is, and it has to originate from a different source mechanism than the noise.
by JLak
Mon Aug 08, 2011 2:32 am
Forum: Finance and Investments
Topic: Economic collapse!!What should be done to prepare?
Replies: 20
Views: 17816

Re: Economic collapse!!What should be done to prepare?

John, do you have any interest in 'gulching'? I just got back from Afghanistan with a small chunk of cash and I'd like to start one with it. I'm looking at cheap spartan real estate like old schools or warehouses and I'd like to start a software incubator/college alternative kind of thing. Basically...
by JLak
Mon Apr 18, 2011 3:42 am
Forum: Finance and Investments
Topic: Financial topics
Replies: 29813
Views: 14768576

Re: Investor sentiment at record levels

vincecate wrote: Chance of stocks going down seems high.
Chances of any dollar-denominated asset going down seems pretty darn low to me:
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No need to read the news; just watch FRED.
by JLak
Tue Apr 12, 2011 9:32 am
Forum: Finance and Investments
Topic: Financial topics
Replies: 29813
Views: 14768576

Re: Richard Koo - Why QE2 has been a disaster

... Koo says that only the government can step in to spend the excess savings in the market. http://www.businessinsider.com/richard-koo-quantitative-easing-2011-4?op=1 I just can't comprehend how these "pure macro" economic theories (neo-Keynsian) maintain credibility when they not only fail over a...
by JLak
Sun May 30, 2010 2:11 am
Forum: Finance and Investments
Topic: Financial topics
Replies: 29813
Views: 14768576

Re: Financial topics

FIne art, gemstones and gold as intrinsic value? Ha!

The only intrinsic value right now is in oil. USD has problems but OPEC pricing in USD is the modern equivalent of Bretton Woods.
by JLak
Tue May 18, 2010 1:37 am
Forum: Finance and Investments
Topic: Financial topics
Replies: 29813
Views: 14768576

Re: Financial topics

Although Higgy has started to erode my confidence, I for one still believe that the fed, government, and banks will (successfully) do everything possible to keep the metrics slightly positive in dollar terms over a 90-180 day moving average, despite the 'secular' crash and disastrous consequences fo...
by JLak
Mon May 10, 2010 3:26 pm
Forum: Finance and Investments
Topic: Financial topics
Replies: 29813
Views: 14768576

Re: Financial topics

This was somewhat obvious. When faced with a tough decision, extreme measures will be taken to delay until larger forces make it. Eventually it will turn into a situation that parallels the prelude to the American Civil War. The EU states have roughly the same political cohesion as the US states of ...
by JLak
Fri Apr 30, 2010 11:52 am
Forum: Finance and Investments
Topic: Financial topics
Replies: 29813
Views: 14768576

Re: Financial topics

What about some of the conspiracy theorists out there that believe all these currency failings are being created and manipulated in an effort to force the emergence of a new "super currency" that would force the world into a globally centralized monetary control system? Does any of that talk have a...
by JLak
Fri Apr 30, 2010 11:31 am
Forum: Finance and Investments
Topic: Financial topics
Replies: 29813
Views: 14768576

Re: Europe's 'nuclear option'

If the ECB employs the "nuclear option" and bails out all the PIIGS countries, what would happen to the euro currency? Yes, if the ECB violates its charter by bailing out the PIIGS, it will set a precedent for rewarding unsustainable deficits and eventually destroy it in a confidence crisis. The US...
by JLak
Fri Apr 30, 2010 1:06 am
Forum: Weblog News Comments and Discussion
Topic: 29-Apr-10 News-Desperate Europeans try to save euro
Replies: 14
Views: 15290

Re: 29-Apr-10 News-Desperate Europeans try to save euro

I'm not an economist, but I stayed at a Holiday Inn before and I know right now, whether it's inflation or deflation, we're headed for a world of hurt. Just trying to figure out what to do... buy gold, hoard cash, sell land, keep land, throw my hands up in the air, move overseas or all of the above...