Soonerbones

I have read time and again from financial folks that not paying off your house for the tax write off is like buying your own jet for free peanuts. Kind of like getting married for the sex.

What a small world !! Rico1, I met you on a flight when we were trying to get from BAF to Shindand . I am the MA1 that was escorting the tiny, little, civilian Customs agent of Hawaiian/Asian descent. LOL...what a world.

"....relative to the US dollar...." http://www.iraq-businessnews.com/2011/11/30/stable-currency-key-to-iraqs-success/

Exactly !! Tax revenues would be way up, small businesses would grow, the rate of new homes built would rally, the stock market would jump....all of these indicators that are used as a barometer for a country's economic health would flourish. And the man at the helm would take credit.

So you're a pretendian ? Yeah,see alot of those. 3/4 Shawnee and have seen some the most absurd and ridiculous comments ever.....naieve at best, idiotic at the most. You know the single biggest thing holding back advancement of the tribes ? The idiotic tribal members !! Just watch the Cherokee Nation !! They can't have an election without completely screwing it up, and then a pissed off Chief sends his marshals over to perform a search warrant on his opponet. The Cheyenne/Arapaho , seriously ? The trailer trash of all Native people....they rake in millions a day !! Where's it go ? Grunt ...Idunno...shinnegah guy. Wake up. Natives can help themselves, but first need to be kicked off the teat.

Which would explain the notable absence of Caucasions on the Korean peninsula. I'LL BE HERE ALL NIGHT ,FOLKS !!!!

Naieve much ? Sometimes wealth IS created out of less than thin air. Production,innovation and efficiency ? Or good bets ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2kjuC7oSvA Similar examples of wealth that's simply pulled like a rabbit from a hat.... Synthetic CDOs do not own cash assets like bonds or loans. Instead, synthetic CDOs gain credit exposure to a portfolio of fixed income assets without owning those assets through the use of credit default swaps, a derivatives instrument. (Under such a swap, the credit protection seller, the CDO, receives periodic cash payments, called premiums, in exchange for agreeing to assume the risk of loss on a specific asset in the event that asset experiences a default or other credit event.) Like a cash CDO, the risk of loss on the CDOs portfolio is divided into tranches. Losses will first affect the equity tranche, next the mezzanine tranches, and finally the senior tranche. Each tranche receives a periodic payment (the swap premium), with the junior tranches offering higher premiums. A synthetic CDO tranche may be either funded or unfunded. Under the swap agreements, the CDO could have to pay up to a certain amount of money in the event of a credit event on the reference obligations in the CDOs reference portfolio. Some of this credit exposure is funded at the time of investment by the investors in funded tranches. Typically, the junior tranches that face the greatest risk of experiencing a loss have to fund at closing. Until a credit event occurs, the proceeds provided by the funded tranches are often invested in high-quality, liquid assets or placed in a GIC (Guaranteed Investment Contract) account that offers a return that is a few basis points below LIBOR. The return from these investments plus the premium from the swap counterparty provide the cash flow stream to pay interest to the funded tranches. When a credit event occurs and a payout to the swap counterparty is required, the required payment is made from the GIC or reserve account that holds the liquid investments. In contrast, senior tranches are usually unfunded since the risk of loss is much lower. Unlike a cash CDO, investors in a senior tranche receive periodic payments but do not place any capital in the CDO when entering into the investment. Instead, the investors retain continuing funding exposure and may have to make a payment to the CDO in the event the portfolio's losses reach the senior tranche. Funded synthetic issuance exceeded $80 billion in 2006. From an issuance perspective, synthetic CDOs take less time to create. Cash assets do not have to be purchased and managed, and the CDOs tranches can be precisely structured. Hybrid CDOs are an intermediate instrument between cash CDOs and synthetic CDOs. The portfolio of a hybrid CDO includes both cash assets as well as swaps that give the CDO credit exposure to additional assets. A portion of the proceeds from the funded tranches is invested in cash assets and the remainder is held in reserve to cover payments that may be required under the credit default swaps. The CDO receives payments from three sources: the return from the cash assets, the GIC or reserve account investments, and the CDO premiums.

Ummm, ok...

Again ...why do gurus exist when it's not hard to access info ourselves ? Good find.

Forehead...think facial tatoos rock !

Mmmm...just dropped a musky ....and then flushed it.

Funny how people missed that part.... Gurus exist because people miss things like this and then gurus claim it as intel.

Disagree, and the ISX put out a great series of statements as to why and lest we forget how much a country is tied to it's stock trade. That being said, I believe we'll see a near straight up at 1 to 1 or just below for simplicity of tradings sake.

Black community ? Ever been to Southern Appalachia ? Indian reservations ? Man, look outside the box.

Why in the hell do gurus exist ? Information is not hard to come by .