[emily]

Your short list kinda proves I said the Republicans controlled the Supreme Court -- does anyone disagree??

Me. Its split 4-4 with Kennedy as a swing vote. Has been all through 2000 through present.

Heck for a long time it was 4(Left) vs. 3 right with 2 swing (Kennedy and Oconnor)

[NEronchik]

I'm putting all my money in sea shells and obsidian arrow heads. It worked for the Native Americans.

[Jorcelirl]

It would seem to be more stable than Dollars alone

Stable relative to what?

[Phoneemer]

The IMF's track record isn't very good, particularly with third world countries which are basically locked into very long-term debt obligations and have had their wealth taken by SAPs and other IMF/World Bank shenanigans. For these reason I would be concerned about the IMF managing the world currency.

Further, the IMF is in tune with the 'de-industrialization' and 'demand destruction' programs (see Brzezinski's Between two Ages); and these are not pleasant scenarios. Brzezinski is a very close adviser and mentor to the one and only Obama, and has close ties to international banking interestests.

Re: acceptance of a 'world reserve' by the U.S., Geithner is on record stating that he would support such a thing. The IMF is a creation of western banking interests, so I'm pretty sure western powers would be on-board with them - pending relatively minor political considerations.

[Roamsaffots]

Countries are shifting their reserves toward SDRs and other currencies, and Dollar value is dropping for this reason (among others). I expect this to continue and to accelerate over time.

[StarsWorld]

I'm genuinely curious.

You really like this phrase when talking to morons, don't you. Yes, it's a purely scientific curiosity, like observing behavioral patterns at the zoo.

[Angelinaaiiiiiiiii]

Whoa there, son. You're rapidly running out of options for hats.

[AlexBrith]

I wish that randomturn guy that GP refers to occasionally was still around...

I'd ask him what modules he'd want me to add to quantlib to make myself look awesome on my resume...

[Ekrbcbvh]

Whoa there, son. You're rapidly running out of options for hats.

His statement was accurate. And didn't say much.

[Abnorbprootly]

We needs to stop our monies from escaping teh Americas.

[dodsCooggipsedebt]

And in terms of pure mathematical finance I'd go so far as to say that I'm the Poly expert.

Bear in mind it is Poly. You could be sitting in a hall full of middle schoolers and philosophy undergrads and probably have stiffer competition overall.

[soonahonsefalh]

That's what makes this thread so sad.

[duncanalisstmp]

been looking at some bond funds through Vanguard (company I use for investments). Some are decent. Foreign stocks and bonds have hefty charges on them, so I guess I'll stay away from them. They really haven't faired all that great anyways. There is one intermediate bond I'm looking at that has maintained between 3 to 6% interest.

I should be all good unless the U.S. goverment, state and local goverments collapse. But that would never happen, would it?

[Virosponna]

we're waiting for your prediction, besserwisser

What prediction would that be, stockpicker?

[ValdisSeroff]

Predict what?

[JohnMaltczevitch]

Why don't you tell us all again about how you toyed with the idea of getting rich quickly with your superior stockpicking skills, but decided not to bother? I liked that story. By the way, have you ever described to us exactly what it is that you do for a living? I'm guessing that you run a small adult bookshop in a Helsinki suburb.

[lipitrRrxX]

As far as Dis, he should gain some exposure to foreign equity markets through major indexes, but should weight these lower than US equities by market cap, as he is assuming exchange rate risk under this transaction (which domestic buyers in those markets do not).

Now let's hear about how you can beat the CAPM some more.