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First, you'll need money. How much? Let's say you want to trade one contract of crude oil on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX). Since you're not a member of the exchange, and no one will really trust your new oil venture, you're going to need to start with at least $10,000 in your margin account (similar to a brokerage account, but it lets you leverage your bets to the hilt) as collateral to comfortably trade one contract. That might sound like a lot for just one contract, but a single contract on NYMEX represents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: So You Want to Be an Oil Speculator? | 8/10/2009 | See Source »

...access to credit in a very strict proportion to their income - not a future projection of their income, which is what we've been doing. It's been, "I'm now making $50,000, but in a few years I'll be making $150,000, so no big deal, let's go buy an expensive house now." This whole business of giving more credit than a person can service is not only foolish, but if you tried to do that 200 or 300 years ago, it would have been considered immoral as well. We don't think that way anymore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Americans Got into a Credit-Card Mess | 8/8/2009 | See Source »

This reset moment will not last for long, let alone forever. History and the zeitgeist keep moving. It's a good bet that the 2020s will be fully roaring, the dawn of yet another thrilling, manic era of hypercapitalist easy money and overnight fortunes and conspicuous consumption...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Reset Economy: What Can We Learn From the End of Excess? | 8/8/2009 | See Source »

...open." When pressed as to whether he would be interested in serving as head of the FBI or Homeland Security, he said "I don't comment on jobs that I haven't been offered. We'll see what the future might bring." Los Angeles Mayor Villaraigosa was less reticent: "Let me put it this way, the powers that be would have Bill Bratton at the top of the list for any high-level law enforcement positions that would open up. He?s just the best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why is Los Angeles Losing Its Police Commissioner? | 8/8/2009 | See Source »

...with Kurds and Sunnis. Top military adviser Reese likened the relationship between Iraqi and U.S. soldiers to a "father teaching his kid to ride a bike without training wheels," explaining, "Our hand on the back of the [Iraqis'] seat is holding them back and causing resentment. We need to let go before we both tumble to the ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Case for Leaving Iraq — Now | 8/8/2009 | See Source »

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