MeFi post: Investors can still afford stones

rakish_yet_centered -- "Does this apply to ETFs? Or is Brazil past this? I'm thinking of EWZ."

Well, ETFs - or Exchange Traded Funds - are collective investment vehicles sold in the United States. So while the vehicle itself certainly won't be corrupt and you as an investor won't have any problems wrt getting what you've paid for (your interests are protected by the SEC), the managers of such funds may,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Mutant at 1:22 AM on July 18, 2008

MeFi post: How much for that nukie in the window? Boom. Boom.

@Pastabagel: Yes, the article establishes she was listening to covert tapes. They are classified and therefore the government can politely and very rightly ask her to shut the hell up. When something is classified, everything relating to that thing gets classified. If the covert recordings include a segment where the target is listening to Enya, that segment is still classified even though nothing in it is a state secret.

So even if the tapes show... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by krash2fast at 8:39 PM on January 8, 2008

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