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Fixed and coded up by Dug

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Ice is a para since it is combo of two primaries (air and water). Actually, I have a half written Ice...

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Looking at proc on HL, and we'll update you on conclusion.

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www.equitytrader.com

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Man, that's got to be cold the first time you put it on.

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It's my fault, and I'm getting some help with my end of things. I've apoligized to Silverymoon's writer for the delay so it's all good.

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That's an asinine and offensive picture. Go troll somewhere else. In regard to speculation, it's always existed. If you read history, you'll see speculation occurring all the time. Another word for speculation is investing. Usually, the "solution" to speculation is much worse than the spec...

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Let's make this real easy. If you run a company, or even if you are just an individual, you do things based on future expectations, not present conditions. If you believe you can make more money in the future AND that rate of return is higher than doing nothing, you spend to invest in capital equipm...

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A number of Dems are out there talking about nationalizing the oil industry. Talk about a bad, bad idea. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vhft39_gkc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUaY3LhJ-IQ Here's an article by another alumni from Maryland that understands why you have to have the profit motive, ie...

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Originally, I wrote a meaner reply, but the website didn't go through so I'll write a nicer one. My fundamental problem with the author of the paper you linked before was the bias that came out in it. As I said, from the writing, the author lacks real world experience. Reading and thinking about som...

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Sarvis-World - Read things and don't consider if the author veered off course.

Got it!

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Touchy, huh? I read the paper you posted, and from the writing, it was clear that it was someone stuck deep in academia. Part of reading what someone writes is using their tone and verbiage to divine what their background is. Yes, most business people make fun of folks that don't actually do things ...

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I remember reading that paper you posted. I wrote a couple of paragraphs that I have saved in respsonse, but I never finished the whole thing. Whoever the professor is wasn't in the business field and probably not in economics. The trouble with it was the writer lacked an ability to apply things in ...

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Get chopping on Shadowdale!!!

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You wrote it, you pick it.

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Man, I really dislike vague consultant-talk laden memos. How about specific examples?

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There is a new town zone coming in shortly. I'm working on some flavor zones to connect this new zone to the world, but it is going a little slow. I expect to have the connection zones ready by the end of multi week. All the little zones will not have the quest stuff, but I'll follow back around and...

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Obama better watch out if he picks her for VP. Her and Bill Clinton may "Vince Foster" him.

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Talk about a new political tactic. Have to love those sensitive Dems!

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Congresswoman Walks Away Capital Weekly is telling the story of Congresswoman Laura Richardson's decision to Walk Away. The story of the foreclosure of Long Beach Democrat Laura Richardson's Sacramento home is a tale of a real estate market gone sour. It is also an illustration of how far many candi...

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Ok, I'm scarred for life now.

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We're getting oil and gasoline confused. You're right, like any commodity, oil and gasoline are priced on the spot market. That spot market though is subject to not only demand, but what the companies offer gasoline at. With more demand, the demand curve shifts to the upper right creating more suppl...

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The NEEDY get healthcare just go to any emergency room in the inner city if you are brave enough.

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Here come the Fox News bashers, guess they get the real news from CNN, aka the Communist News Network. "Capitalism and communism stand at opposite poles. Their essential difference is this: The communist, seeing the rich man and his fine home, says: 'No man should have so much.' The capitalist,...

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Huh, has anyone heard of OPEC? I have yet to hear much attacks on them as we have the oil companies. Largely, the oil companies have a profit margin which is based on a percentage of the price they sell it at. The forumula is: All Costs + Profit Margin = Price Profit Margin is the ratio of profit di...

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I find myself agreeing with Obama on McCain. I do think he has lost his "bearings"!

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,356097,00.html

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http://www.newyorkfed.org/mortgagemaps/

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Yea, I remember she got pretty pissed at him about it.

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Tennessee responds to Michelle Obama!

http://www.youtube.com/tennesseeGOP

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A husband and wife are shopping at their local Wal-Mart and the husband picks up a case of Budweiser and puts it in their shopping cart. 'What do you think you're doing?' asks the wife. 'They're on sale, only $10 for 24 cans,' he replies. 'Put them back, we can't afford them,' demands the wife and s...

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Right now, you are making yourself way too available to her. I agree with the others that you should pull back from her, and do some things with your friends. The reason is when she does call you, you will have lots of fun things to tell her that you did while she was working. If she is really worki...

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSZMaZQMc24

Accidents and Animal Attacks!!!

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So you just want to babble nonsense saying that companies don't pay shareholders the profits and not know what in the hell you're talking about. Shareholders are the company, and to assert they don't get the profits is nonsense. A company can use retained earnings to buy back shares which in theory ...

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Amena, Here is a good story on how things work in the real world. After Peloton Partners' demise the WSJ provides an autopsy The WSJ delves into the rise and rapid flame-out of Peloton Partners.... When hedge-fund chief Ron Beller's investments in U.S. mortgages turned against him, he got a rude awa...

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In addition, there are three parts to a corporations balance sheet: Assets, Liabilities, and Shareholder Equity. The formula is Assets = Liabilities + Shareholder Equity. Within Shareholder Equity is a section called "Retained Earnings". When the earnings are not given out as dividends, th...

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Then you need to read harder Sarvis. Notice the double taxation statement? Maybe you want to google it to comprehend what the double taxation is about?

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Let's hit the foreclosure thing first. You don't magically wake up one day and get foreclosed on. It means you quit paying your mortgage for at least three months (here in the States). Also, it takes about six to nine months to go through the legal stuff, so it takes about a year total to be foreclo...

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Quote from Sarvis: Oh, and here's the kicker: Corporations don't even generally give profits to shareholders! They reuse it to grow and expand instead, which is why many stocks don't even pay dividends these days. You don't get the money the corporation earns, you get money if other people expect it...

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Rags and Sarvis, How in the world can you say a company's primary focus should be supporting a community? Detroit crapped on the auto makers for years and raised taxes like crazy on their citizens. In addition, liberals allowed lawlessness, and you got white flight out of the city and into the subur...

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So let me ask you this. What's special about you that you know to insure your risks, work hard and not be a blight on society? Clearly you're not a republican, so why are you like the "ant"? Why not be the "grasshopper" and waste your time. In the second story, the "grasshop...

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Disability insurance covers the risk that you lose your income due to not being able to work. If you make like 20K, you don't need DI as the social security benefit would suffice to replace a low income. So Rags, do you have disability insurance? I know I have it through work, and I would be interes...

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A part time worker probably doesn't make much money. In that situation, their social security disability benefit would probably be sufficient.

Any job that doesn't have insurance benefits is probably a really low end job.

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If your job offers health insurance, you probably have the option for disability as well. Rags, I assume you have a job. If you have health insurance through it, why would you not take the disability?

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From the story I wrote, the ant was successful. How you go from successful and smart to bankruptcy boggles me. Like any smart person, he has disablity insurance so he's covered.

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The other issue with oil is that some new demand is coming from the market itself. As Corth has alluded to in other threads, today, we have many new financial products to get exposure to areas that were much more difficult years ago. Oil is one of those areas. Oil ETF's have seen a huge inflow of as...

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Amena, let me see if I understand you. The Canadian government wants the oil companies to produce more oil. At the same time, they want to raise the royalties on the oil that is pulled out of the ground? Now why in the world would any company INCREASE production when they are being charged more of t...

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I've really got to post some things about demand and supply when I get time on here. I've gotten a good laugh about some of the statements. I did a quick graph of oil prices. D is demand curve and S is the supply curve. As you can see, the demand curve has shifted to the right resulting in a higher ...

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Feh, ok, no one wants to have a real discussion because they are beating a dead horse. Let me know when the usual political banter is back on. BTW, it says personal attacks on players. Critiquing a comment is not a personal attack unless someone can explain how it is. To bring it back to the politic...

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Er ah, you're still wrong. Thanks.

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