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Agreed. This is the worst idea yet.

Making the Fed accountable to congress is NOT the same thing as making the Fed accountable to the people of the United States.

All of the problems the Fed creates stems from its central control of the currency. That problem won't be fixed by making it either transparent or answerable to congress. The American people won't understand what they're looking at and congress will understand even less.

According to the Phinneywood blog, it will be closed all summer as well.

Wow. That confession looks like it was taken right out of Stalin's playbook.

This is predictable and scary.

Never listen to a trader who has ever had a losing trade. Gotcha. Great plan.

The whole idea of creating a NRSROS oligopoly is polluted. It should be scrapped. Obviously, the reduction in competition this barrier to entry has not lead to better ratings and the SEC can't provide the oversight necessary to ensure better ratings.

Blumenthal is on the right side, but this guy too is a politically motivated disaster. He will do anything to get his name in the papers to further his political career. Let's not kid ourselves.

except that Bush moved much slower and his ideas weren't as totalitarian as Obama's. Other than that, there's really not much difference. Change I can believe in! Yippeeee.

WHAT?! Dim Geithner lied to us? I'm shocked. He looks so honest when he explains things while peering sideways at us at us from beneath his eyebrows.

This guy is brave. I expect he will have every imaginable financial regulator logged up his....fund for the rest of his life.

Don't worry. Obama announced today that he has a PLAN. Presumably, this plan is the real plan. The other plans were just practice.

That'll show the SRS who's boss.

They can only manipulate in the short term at the expense of the dummies the longs will be selling to. In the long run, the uncertainty about the real value of the shares will increase discount rates, increasing the cost of capital, decreasing economic activity and trading volume, increasing price volatility and driving listing and trading to less rigged exchanges.
And you know, what? I can see all of that happening. Viva la Banana Republic!

Head,

Yes, creating your own uptick is one of the ways to get around the utpick rule. There are plenty of other ways as well. Let's just skip to the chase - The only people the uptick rule ever inconvenienced was Joe Blow retail guy. With the uptick rule as an excuse, his orders for low to medium liquidity stocks were routinely subject to the worst execution imaginable. The pros collected the rents Joe Blow was forced to pay. Yet, it's Joe who wants the uptick rule back. Go figure.

"Now would be the perfect time to reinstate the uptick rule. Most of the rally is over so if the uptick rule is in place when the correction comes, it would end the debate once and for all."

That's very funny. the tech bubble crash, the 1970's market run ups and crashes and the 1987 crash all happened while the uptick rule was in place. Did that end the debate? No amount of logic will wipe the stupid from retail traders and that suits the market makers just fine as it creates rents for them - particularly in low to medium liquidity stocks. So, while I agree with your implication that the uptick rule is BS, we're outnumbered.

Oh for fucking fuck's sake.

No fucking way am I going to act like Pelosi and Reid, and stand there while every goddam wrong thing goes on and assure everyone we'll REALLY take the fight to them next time.

This time. Tomorrow is promised to no one. Tomorrow we will be fighting the re-criminalization of homosexuality if we do not fight the re-banning of gay marriage today.

How do I know? Because we are fighting the permanent burial of Cheney's crimes today because the nice docile Pelosi and Reid took Bush's crimes off the table last year.

What the fucking fuck?

Weren't angry-white-woman Susan Molinari and Newtie among the leading Rethug talking heads who put out the demonizing of Freddie Mac as the scary lenders to black people?

Shouldn't there be an online record of the way they took this money and then threw their former clients under the bus in the election campaign?

Streeter,

Has it occurred to you that perhaps this site has devolved because it is somewhat insulting and not all that funny? The more appropriate subtitle to this site would be "A new rich person complaint every day of the week," although of course "Rich Whine" doesn't have quite the same ring to it. But at least then it would be demographically accurate. What I'm trying to say is, you make a fundamental error assuming that it is specifically white folks who are "spoiled" and love those expensive things; whereas in actuality it is the mid-to-upper classes, which easily includes some Asian-American and African-American populations as well.

Not all white people can afford iphones, yoga classes, five course restaurant meals, massages, beach houses, etc, etc. I certainly can't, and it irks me to no end when non-Caucasian individuals look at me and assume that I'm some spoiled rich person due to the color of my skin. They don't like people judging them based on their skin color; well, I don't either. Websites like yours obviously don't help these white person stereotypes. In reality, I grew up below the poverty line, but of course since I'm white it's "impossible" that I grew up poor, huh? Go figure. Let's just conveniently ignore all those poor white folks in the trailer parks. If we don't approve of African-American stereotypes, or Jewish stereotypes, etc., then I'd like to know what makes Caucasian stereotypes okay in your book.

Anyhow, I think your presumptions here may be a contributing factor to the general disrespect this site seems to have garnered.

Sincerely,

Non-Wealthy White Person

Blizzard rocks, even if the $15/month for WoW is still way too much. Good thing there's plenty of other (legally free) online games available!

I like the part where they keep the location where they found the "creature" hushed to protect it!!! LOL! You think the "creature" went this long with out being captured/ spotted/ confirmed to exist. When you look at their web site it just screams scam!!! They are just giving everyone a nibble so everyone will bite when they ask for money here real soon. I would like this to be real just for the coolness factor, but we all know if they did in fact find one, it will be the beginning of the end for Big Foot. This will push people to fund expeditions all over the place to actually capture a living one so we can pay a nickel to throw some popcorn at it.

"I promise this is last time you'll have to wear the speedo suit. I KNOW it's crushing your boys down below...don't cry...we're in this together."

The quality is much better than the usual cam videos. Thanks and congrats! But I'm guessing your original rip is even better. Would you mind uploading the original HQ version to a sharing site (like sendspace, megaupload etc.)? The flash versions on youtube won't survive this week anyway.

Firefox 2 on my iMac. Works great. Firefox 3 on my work machine (Power Mac) is even snappier.

I will grand the writer this much: a coin flip is a horrible way to determine playoff matchups. At least the league should go by overall record, which coincidentally would not change this year's result: Cornell (19-8) gets the winner of Harvard (18-10) v. Dartmouth (14-14). Fair enough. But this is not justification for a tournament.

The Ivy League plays a full round-robin schedule. That gives every team an equal opportunity to win. If the NCAA tournament bid is about "rewarding players and fans for a good season," what exactly is the problem with giving it to the team who wins the most games against the other teams? What has Brown done to deserve a third shot at Cornell? They lost to the Red twice. Your argument that if Cornell is really that good they would win the tournament anyway is asinine. Cornell was two whistles away from losing to Penn at the Palestra and it is not much of a stretch to think they could lose to the Quakers in a theoretical 1-4 semifinal matchup in some godforsaken gym in central Connecticut where this thing would probably be played. So Penn (13-18) ends up playing Yale (13-15) for the NCAA bid. Explain to me now who is exactly being rewarded for having a good season here?

That Penn and Princeton have historically dominated and Cornell won this year is not a result of the "system" but rather because other programs have not fielded good enough teams to compete. Cornell figured this out. They didn't complain about the system, they got good players and built a very good team. That Harvard has never won a championship in men's basketball is no one's fault but Harvard's. Just win the games. It's really that simple. And you really don't need to commit NCAA violations to do that.

Would a decentralized twitter be pretty much the same as IRC?

I have used a few DRM services.. all of them that I know of like iTunes.. keep a record of what you buy, which is more than block buster does if something gets damaged.

Confirm that if you reset the DRM you can then re-download the content and keep going.

Some one said hey itunes won't do this.. how many vendors does Apple license it DRM to? O ZERO.. as long as you only want to do business with Apple its a great system.

Yeah, this washer works so well that it has TWO detergent drawers!

This owl dude appears to spend all his time posting negative comments about Ferriss across the Net. Get a life, dude or dudette,