wackypete2
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Isn't there research into non-exchange traded commodities (onions?)
Gets me all teary-eyed just thinking about it.
Peter
Isn't there research into non-exchange traded commodities (onions?)
Gets me all teary-eyed just thinking about it.
Peter
Change, yes. Trend, no. The consequences of believing models that are internally inconsistent but are nonetheless worth using as the basis of making major economic decisions should cause everyone pause. Science, like any other profession, has its share of scoundrels.
Thanks for (attempting) to stay on thread. Sadly it's becoming an increasingly rare phenomena on T2W. The question posed was straightforward and it's a shame so much narrow opinion has already been spewed to render the thread and any further debate pointless.
:-0what i don't get is how can it be unethical? Because if say you short the dollar and do it so much that dollars are worth less its bad for americans because they can't buy as much foreign goods, but its good for canadians, australians, europeans, because they can buy more american goods, and so on and so on.:-0 whats bad for one currency is good for another one, and it goes round and round in circles.
i dont think that speculating on food or oil or shorting stocks is unethical either buts thats a different story.
Gets me all teary-eyed just thinking about it.
Peter
Back on form after a few lame ones ("hypothermal" ..)![]()
Er, I think he's slightly taken aback by the notion that a weaker $ is a good thing for countries that export to America.
Not by any interpretation of my remarks that I can devise.There is a trend in it being more erratic. You appear to be under the impression that your weather forecast and the global climate models are one and the same. They have very little in common.
Hmmm. DDT banned and millions die. Oh well.As for share of scoundrels, hardly, science doesn't allow for much leeway to be reputable and false.
Two out of three of the hoaxes perpetrated on the world that I mentioned came out of the UK. I get no particular pleasure out of this, but country bashing has no place in this discussion.Of course, in the good ole US you have the 3% who would rather take the pay roll and say it's no big deal, but the rest of us don't consider them scientists, they're generally religious nutters who would vote for Palin.
No-one here will have enough money to influence the price anyway so why even worry about the ethics?
Speak for yourself, my account is over 4 figures.
what about japanese housewifes?
lots of 4 figure (in dollars) accounts there!
More like 6 figure accounts. Japanese households control around $76 billion in daily exchange trading.
is that before or after the new rules?
similar thing is happening in US forex too now.
6 months old report - 'Mrs Watanabe'
PS Mrs Watanabe, the market's metaphor for Japan's housewife yen speculators