Some people get this idea about mister market by observing differences between exUSSR where they grew up and USA where they live now.

That is, you make your money back in 99 years. Toda it is about 120 P/E. Someone bought shares from MZ and early stakeholders including employees on public market on their free will.
Q: who failed basic arithmetics in this transaction?

Open your wallet even wider!

None of them is going to major in math and science in college but go for soft degrees and later attempt to govern us.

... what they are doing now when Olympics involve aircraft carriers, SAMs on rooftops and sonic guns. Me, I stopped giving sh..t about these natinal dick contests by IOC long time ago.

Immigrating to another country is risky and tough. Lazy, complacent, timid, and dependent are more likely to stay put. Therefore immigrant population is likely to be biased towards selt-starters, risk-takers, ambitious people. They are enterpreneural material.

Please do not forget that Poland as it exists right now would not be possible if not U.S. "meddling" in Euro affairs since WWII. Do you really thing Germany and France gives a flying fsck about Poland? Just look at how they brown nose Putin for all his years in power.

They used to big shots and now cannot bear thought of being second tier power. Their reactions are childish.

To those who read Russian interwebs since '90 the rise of government astroturfing should have been obvious starting about '00. There was a marked change in tone and verbage of forum comments on different online forums. Such posters are called "brigades" and thought to be FSB operatives.

After reading open letter from one of the designers of Fobos Nikolai Morozov to russian vice-premier Sergei Ivanov from 03/08/2011 it's hard to believe that Fobos-Grunt launch was anything but a success.

The goal was not to send something to Mars as officially stated but to get rid of material evidence of gross incompetence and graft going on in KB Lavochkin for many years.

Link (in Russian): http://apervushin.livejournal.com/179226.html

"you flood the automatic trade daemons with false quote data" - good luck with that.
- First, you have to get connected to marketplaces in a way that makes flood possible. This is not cheap (upward of 30K a month for that.)
- Second, putting in orders with no intention to execute is called "market manipulation" in SEC book and will get you a fine between 100K and few $M depending on severity of the offence.
- Third, people who can deal with as much traffic as you describe already are gainfully employed by US trading houses so the only things you will flood are you 10G uplinks to exchanges.

Once you pay contractor, there is no unknown deferred liabilities that would likely double or triple FTE cost if accounted for.

The index is too narrow. S&P 500 and Russel 2000 have much better coverage of broad economy. Not coincidentally S&P500 and Russel2K ETFs, futures, and options are among most traded on capital markets.
The publisher of the index, Dow Jones agency also owns Wall Street Journal and that maybe why DJIA is not forgotten just yet.

IT will not catch anyone. They do not have neither authority nor knowledge of applicable risk limits. Authority to control traders risks are granted to "risk managers" (duh!) This loss is an abject failure of a risk manager that was assigned to monitor the trades. Unless the trader cooked the books to hide what he was doing as in SocGen case of last year the risk manager deserves to be thrown out of his job with black mark and put in jail for long time.

If you can't value a human life, ask life insurance professional. Short version: a human generates income stream. Value of someone's life is a sum of that income from present to death of the individual. So if GDP per capita today is 14K in Russia and 45K in America then average American life is three time as valuable.