RalphD

'Improved' Housing Starts May Impede Recovery

The most ridiculous discussion and conclusion I've seen in quite a while.

Government Revises Deficit Estimates Again: We Will Exceed Expectations

Idea more correctly attributed to Tocqueville


On Aug 24 07:31 PM John Galt wrote:

> A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist
> as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist
> up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves
> generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the
> majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits
> from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will
> finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed
> by a dictatorship
> - Alexander Tytler 1787

U.S. Natural Gas ETF: What You Need to Know

Why not just open up a commodities account and short the futures yourself. You avoid of a lot of the buy/sell spread losses invariably associated with complex option positions.