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Buy a futures contract on the presidential election?
The North American Derivatives Exchange wants to sell futures contracts based on which party gains control of the White House, the House and the Senate.
Read more...Wanna bet (invest) on who wins election?
Looking for a way to hedge the economic risks this year's presidential election pose to what's left of your retirement savings? Or do you just want to place a government-regulated bet on whether a donkey or an elephant will cross the finish line first in November?
Read more...The Fed is Engineering Obama’s Re-Election Campaign
Mitt Romney has just rolled up back to back victories in the Nevada and Florida primaries, and his path to the Republican nomination looks to be inevitable.
Read more...The Talk of the Web
There's been a lot of activity on the Web and in our industry in the last week, and I thought it might be fun to try and tie at least some of it together. Much of it in one way or another involves Facebook -- or "FB," as the proposed ticker symbol suggests. It's widely assumed that its IPO will make the very earliest buyers a nice pile of profit, but what about those looking for a longer-term ...
Read more...The Tobin Tax Has Been Tried Before, And It Was A Total Disaster
There is massive theoretical as well as actual real life evidence that financial transaction taxes will backfire, but that never stops politicians hell-bent on plowing ahead with "it's different this time" horrendous ideas.
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