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...ad to disappointment, particularly among the sunshine-loving trading folk, who naively expect a draft promised “today” to arrive during the hours of d

...ing one which Lange took on in 1984, one can only tip one’s hat to the man who actually did start that process rolling and acknowledge this very personal

...ely to evidence a [[causation]] than a ''lack'' of correlation”, is one of those logical canards. As Monty Python put it, “[[universal affirmative]]s can ...you accept some [[reductionism|objectivist ]] model where, whether we can know it or not, there ''is'' a true, unique, single cause for every effect — a

...g their derivatives trading teams in the LIBOR setting process. Tom Hayes, who traded Yen LIBOR swaps in Tokyo, was but one. Though in his mid-twenties at ...he “deliberately disregarded the “''proper basis''” for the submission of those rates”.

...of it is just stupid. How does an elevator “belie the age of a building”? Who honestly gives a shit that Barry’s ears pop — at least make it a nose b ...sion with shoes? Does it matter that his phone is on silent? Do we need to know about the handle? No.

...fact, almost certainly will — feel a deep resentment and disappointment at those you engage to carry out your loft extension, as the fourteenth month passes ...inance contracts have lots and lots of [[boilerplate]] aimed to keep those who are owed money-like things safe.

For anyone who wants to hold forth on [[cryptocurrency]], for or against — and in financ ...rtarian project, the authors might say it is people, not cryptocurrencies, who finance terrorism — but to take that position to its extreme, why have ''

In one of those ironies to whose martial cadence our lives keep bitter time, before he coul ...lead the client money remediation workstream if you take all our clunkers? Who will manage our [[risk taxonomy]]? Unless we pay ''your'' stupid rates, whi

...collection of essays. “There are plenty of people without religious faith who live exemplary moral lives (as for example, me).”

The idea that there even ''is'' a single right answer, let alone that you ''know it'', hails from a profoundly [[deterministic]], [[reductionist]] world vie ...n which Sutherland invokes the impish figure of {{author|Paul Feyerabend}} who, with {{author|Thomas Kuhn}}, is one of the JC’s favourite contrarians in

“Limited scope, no affiliates, need to know. It looks good, sir. Plus points: it’s sleek, measured, nice [[Infinite b ...his. There’s a general [[indemnity]]. That’s mad! Who the hell fits one of those onto a ''confi''?

...D|Utopia|/juːˈtoʊpiə/|n|}}The [[apocalypse]], if you’re the sort of person who sees the glass half-full. The [[singularity]]. [[Nirvana]]. ...l tend to converge on existing archetypes, mythologies, stories we already know. These help us imagine a hypothetical utopian/dystopian state.

It was like the goddamn stuff was self-aware: it seemed to know they were looking for it. It saw them coming and vamoosed. They taped the l “Our last five years were gangbusters. So, you know —. Oh, and by the way: past performance does not indicate future results.

...late. But rather than this reducing late pick-ups, average delinquency in those centres ''doubled''. What happened? Gneezy surmises: the fixed penalty put

...of an awful situation: We like our narratives to tell us about the world, those that says, “well, it’s hard to say” doesn’t do that. We do not find ...tps://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001q7dl/panorama-lucy-letby-the-nurse-who-killed|''Panorama'', 18 August 2023}}</ref>:

Bunk, but it provides succour to [[digital prophet]]s and [[thought leader]]s who foresee a world of [[technological unemployment|robot-assisted leisure]], a ...tatic and unalterable. It is dead. Our future experience is, as far as we know, none of these things.

...that average reflects the priorities and values of the individual readers, who are not the same. Some might buy the times —and therefore judge it — f ...that some part of its asset base was liable to default. It didn't need to know which part; it could manage actuarily on the assumption that, say, 5% of a

...sh lawyers were, that doesn’t make literal sense. U.S. attorneys, I fancy, know it. They will regard you beadily should you ask them to explain it, and wil ...s an expensive business. If the [[prime broker]] can raise finance against those (for example by using them as [[collateral]] under a [[securities financin

...o us that, whether we agree to this or not, as a philosophical matter, she who breaks a contract is in no position to insist on her counterparty observing

Only ''some'' of those risks demand greater acumen from our legal friends. ...other party in breach of law or regulation? Whose fault is it if it does? Who bears liability? What are the consequences? Can these consequences be ameli