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Thinkorswim/Investools is an online brokerage/investor education company. Superficially they seem okay, their product seems useful, and I haven't seen any major complaints on the intertubes, but they're a little aggressive in trying to get me to sign-up for their services. For $99.00 I attended...

The title of this topic is the title of a Reuters article published today. Some relevant parts. Hopefully, some of you will laugh as you read the exerpts because you know exactly where I am going to go with this. ;) Smiling yet? I know somebody who called a spade a spade 174 years ago...

Apparently this law has been on the books and available to every president since Carter, but no one has exercised this power (as far as we know) and no one until bush has given the power away to lesser powers outside of the oval office. The law allows corporations, in the name of national...

Chavez, that is. President of Venezuela. http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/05/16/venezuela.arms.ap/index.html Seems old Hugo is a bit ticked off that we've stopped supplying him parts and stuff, so... Um, exactly why, Iran (and Cuba was also mentioned as a buyer) would want 22 year old...

hiya....i'm doing a bit of teach-yourself stock market research from http://www.investopedia.com Arbitrage is the exploitation of an observable price inefficiency and, as such, pure arbitrage is considered riskless. Consider a very simple example. Say Acme stock currently trades at $10 and a...

I have a few questions about the stock market and I don't understand it at all. So I will post a few questions and you all can answer them and also provide links to sites that explain how the stock market works. Firstly...Say I want to buy stock. What do I do? Say I find a Company I want to...

1.How big is the Homeopathy market? Revenue Sales volume. Number of products. Point of sales. Advestisement budget. Number of advertisment. 2. How big is the Homeopathy industry? Number of company. Number of sales person. Amount of training. Production capacity. Number of major brands...

What do you think of this article? (Complete article at http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2005-09/03parenti.cfm) How the Free Market Killed New Orleans By Michael Parenti The free market played a crucial role in the destruction of New Orleans and the death of thousands of its...

We don't need to resort to wildly unrealistic hypotheticals to compare the abilities of the free market vs. socialism to make a prosperous society. All we need to do is look at a real example of history: Plymouth Plantation. All of this is based on Gov. William Bradford's book, Of Plymouth...

In the midst of a horrid argument down in the alternate flame-wars forum (***community***) a very good point has come up, and some reasonable issues have emerged. The point is that skeptics aren't getting the message out to minorities, either in terms of race, social status, or gender. The...

The church always preaches against gambling, but they dont seem to mind people playing the market. Even the church will invest money. Whats the difference if I buy some stock vs. betting on the Cowboys to win this weekend. They are both risks based on educated estimates of what will happen...

Libertarians believe strongly in market forces. From this is derived a belief that a government agency like the FDA is unnecessary because if somebody makes a bad drug, people won’t buy it. And the industry would self-regulate by creating something akin to Underwriters’ Laboratories whose...

I dont visit this particular area of the JREF Forum too often because I'm simply ignorant of most political issues. Add to that, of the things I do know, I am disappointed that politics is one of the areas that strong critical thinking really lacks (I watch the Newshow's "talking points" every...

Senators' stocks often outperform market The full article is HERE. One of the factors slowing down an economic recovery is that people see stock investments as a suckers game.

Oh, it must have been two years ago. I suggested that we buy stocks in the down market and see how we were doing a year later - sort of a contest. I got a share of each: ADVP, COCO, PFCB, and SCRI. Well, didn't do too well compared to the guy who put it all on ORCL. Anyway, my new broker...

In several threads, I've pointed out how the safety features we all enjoy in our automobiles were voluntarily offered by car companies without government intervention (the one exception being air bags, which ended up killing people). Now, Honda and Toyota are working to make us even safer! The...

I have always thought of the US as being opposed to intervention and supportive of the free market. However, from the little I know about US sport, it appears there are a number of major interventions that prevent a free market operating (salary caps, draft system, standard salaries for...