Hedging with those instruments will be VERY expensive. You can expect mean reversion to be baked into the futures prices. Since there's no liquid...
The personal savings rate includes home equity! The money being "saved" through home ownership is being spent via home equity loans. I use...
<i>In ownership you are building equity while you're residing. This must be factored into the models.</i> Home equity is a form of savings....
True. And if you had said, "a <i>typical</i> home owner is still going to come up with a positive npv in the long run," I would have agreed. But a...
<i>When it comes to the renting vs. home ownership debate, there is no question which one is better. Even with minor depreciation, a home owner is...
<i>But like I said before the '04 election, "Anyone but Kerry"....and I'll still stand by that.</i> Al Gore. The damage was done by 2004....
This sets off all kinds of warning bells for me. A Roth IRA rollover promises investors a future tax benefits in exchange for a present tax...
Earnings yield is the reciprocal of P/E ratio. So earnings yield in percent will be equal to P/E ratio if the P/E ratio is exactly 10....
No, it's about equal comparisons. :) You can buy an apartment. You can rent an apartment. You can buy a house. You can rent a house. They are...
<i>The truth is, you can create a model to support both positions.</i> Not in the San Francisco Bay Area. You show me a financial model that...
Annual maintainance reserve obviously depends on how expensive your house is and labor costs in your area. But here's an easy way to estimate a...
Rent is 40% of the CPI. There can certainly be local fluctuations in rent but in the long term rent is guaranteed to be nearly stationary relative...
This doesn't happen often but I agree with Maverick. There are lots of areas in the country today where renting is a better deal than home...
<i>1. How can I lose more than my original funds IF I am not shorting ANDI'm NOT borrowing any funds from them. </i> You can't. <i>"Short...
<i>realizing that said definition of "liberal" has exactly zero correlation with the current definition</i> Well, it probably has zero...
Well, that actually doesn't have anything to do with what I said. I was discussing legality and constitutionality, not morality. For better our...
<i>They also want to substitute their own brand of religion, centered around the homosexual agenda and radical environmentalism.</i> You have...
Well you're coming from BrownCo so your standards can't be all that high. :) IB's customer service is better than BrownCo's, in my experience....
The Moussaoui case is legally absurd. It is state sponsored revenge killing, not justice. The prosecution's case is that Moussaoui should be...
No, they're just capitalists. They have an asset and are looking for the highest bidder. And who's to blame them? Heck, I wouldn't mind finding...
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