As an "economic scientist," you must have some training in higher level mathematics. What areas of math are you familiar with? (keep in mind that...
What do you mean by this? Give some context. Do you mean in terms of trading activity, or notional value?
You're some random guy on the internet using a personal anecdote (that cannot be verified) as an argument, and you\re calling someone else an...
I know what you said. You said "the repeal Glass-Steagall which opened the door to the creation of the financial instruments that led to the...
There was no deregulation under Bush, because Bush did not believe in deregulation or free markets, regardless of what he claimed. He loved govt...
Indeed. These things are unpredictable. You can look at the data and the fundamentals and hypothesize that the fundamentals don't justify the...
No, whats greatly expanding it is the credit expansion efforts by the Fed and the government's policies that have incentivized the use of debt for...
Really? What type of assets have you invested in? Just stocks? What kind, and how did you determine their value? Did you invest in other...
A lot of companies do. And whether or not dividends are a good thing or bad thing depends on the investor and their investment objectives, their...
The stock market is much more volatile than GDP - which means that it can grow at a faster rate during some periods, it can also decline at a...
Obviously! Even though professional fund managers don't outperform the market and most of their asset weighted returns are less than 10%, you...
No, derivatives are not "basically just debt instruments." You appear to be one of the many people who have very little understanding of what a...
I never said anything about the rich getting more and more share of reported income. I said they benefit under any system - even one with massive...
Richest 1% benefit under any system. Under a system with massive government interference in which they attempt to help the less fortunate and to...
How do you determine "fair share?" More importantly, for those who support people paying different rates, how would you go about determining the...
A crash simply because of the size of the derivatives market? No, why would that cause a crash? I assume you believe so because you lack knowledge...
Actually, yes - thanks for asking! Among the products that are in high demand are structured securities backed by subprime auto loans.
>>>MOD EDIT Flamebait Removed<<< When the yield on low risk assets like Treasury bills is lowered (low short term rates causes this) it will...
You realize that article you posted points out that those risky financial instruments were in demand because of their attractively high yield,...
If your issue is with speculation, then you're blaming the wrong thing. Capital gains tax doesn't affect returns and so does not affect the risk...
It's really odd for me to see people who consider themselves conservative blame Clinton for signing a piece of legislation that deregulated some...
Not sure what this has to do with autism, but the application of advanced mathematics and physics concepts to economics goes as far back as 1947,...
Sure, you could say that, but there's another factor that needs to be considered. The effort to increase homeownership started in the 80s and...
No subprime borrower who would finance their home with an ARM can be considered "sophisticated." An ARM is generally cheaper than a fixed rate...
"Pressured into" in the sense that they would have lost market share had they not gone into that market. Subprime loans provided by GSEs performed...
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