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The Old Reality is Still the New Reality  Dodd Frank Illustration   I sat at my desk last week wondering what went wrong. Was I experiencing some type of trading depression? I checked my models, macro numbers, company profits, software, pricing etc. Some of my option contracts were either worthless or were on their way to being worthless.   The pricing of the contracts were not in-line with the actual underlying price of the securities that I was trading. The options' pricing per contract were either priced 40% or more above what the underlying security was worth or priced 40% or more below what the securities were worth. This old reality was still the new reality even after all of financial fixes implemented to fix these same problems that contributed to the financial meltdown in 2007-2008.   The new Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and ConsumerProtection Act which was supposed to clean up many of the abuses in the financial system such as accountability, transpare

The Beginning of the End of the Populist Wave Macron won the French election stemming the populist political wave that was spreading around the globe. Populism is not in of itself a bad thing but left unchecked may not mesh well with the overall political goals of the state or the majority of the people! Macron There is one event that caught my attention during the French election though. It was how fast the French moved to shutdown damaging leaks and misinformation. When it was alleged that Macron's campaign was hacked, the French government moved rapidly to shutdown the site where the emails were posted and instituted a complete blackout and shutdown of any news or hint of news that would affect the outcome of their election. In the U.S. , the former president's actions were completely the opposite. After months and months of allowing leaks and web posts coming from Julian Assange, Russian agents and other foreign agents located in the U.S and abroad related to

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How secure is your privacy in regards to your  browsing activities and online files? Social media has been a boon to many people and companies, creating billions in jobs and opportunities globally. Social media has seemingly shrunk our huge world, making the most distant places on the planet as accessible as your backyard neighborhood store. But how private is your browsing activities and data online? The government says that it should be able to access your electronic records even if that data is located overseas based on the Stored Communications Act - "A pre-internet age statute authorizing the government to compel the disclosure of electronic records with a judge approved warrant." See article on the Wall Street Journal-" For Google 's Data Wars, It all comes down to Location ." In a landmark ruling last year declaring private online communications stored overseas, off limits to prosecutors, Google quickly filtered out all data that was located oversea