"I'm recommending short exposure via inverse exchange-traded funds (ETFs)" I would say short exposure = buy in the morning, and close your position out prior to 4pm DAILY. Yes daily, you can loose your shorts in a buy and hold scenario- inverse ETFs require DAILY care and feeding.  Good Luck!

After the Big Earthquake, if America is lucky enough...California will be severed and float away.  You Callies left the East and the Midwest and now you buy everything foreign.  Shame on you!  (public post).  There should be a California tax to re-employ the rest of the country.  Idiots.

Boy I'll bet eating that popcorn with chopsticks is going to take a while!

Umm...tell me please that Mr. Saverin is no longer allowed in our country-ever! Please tell me we can at least shut him out from ever touching our land again. And if our grand government is listening- shouldn't non-US citizens only be allowed to visit our country for 2 weeks per year.  That's plenty of time for a "...more

Einstein Solution:  Impose a trade fee, just as real investors have paid for decades. Standard fees I am familiar with, even in today's online trading, $10-$20 for up to the first 3,000 shares.  Want to trade more shares, please go ahead, just keep the fees rising as well. The "profitability" for these geeks will fad...more

"China...has a limited risk appetite for additional debt and that it would not bail out Europe." Oh thanks China, BAN CHINESE IMPORTS!

MirageGuy...thinks it is wise to buy the best at the lowest price possible.  You are easy fodder for the equalization of living standards around the globe.  Your living standard and that of your offfspring will be going down.  Enjoy the short-term.

Good point An accountant.  Where our our regulators?

High frequency trading; immoral yes, unethical yes, illegal...darn well better be because it is FRONT RUNNING i.e. putting your order ahead of others!  Easy solution (?) a fixed fee per share transacted with no limit on the fee; i.e. buy a million shares pay the fee x 1 million.  I am still laughing every day that GM's...more