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...ion to “we” as it introduces an ambiguity, in that it may mean “the people on our side of the table” and it may mean “you and me collectively”. Thi ...t does not convey anything more searching than, “we may...”. Entitled! Why on earth would you say you were ''entitled'' if you didn’t have to? Similarl

...the sixties, usually taken in a suspension of credence but later absorbed on back-tested tabs of [[commercial paper]]. But when they ran the algos ''forward'', on a live incoming, they got ''[[Donut|doughnut]]''. Bupkiss.

...p management]] will be wheeled in, and will cave instantly to the client’s demand to reach a craven surrender at position ''Q'', some way ''past'' the market ...edit risk|risk officers]] and [[operations]] personnel, but they converged on the simple idea: ''everyone else in the market has this concept in their do

...ontrolled, top-down managed and targeted ''abstractly'' at a ''perceived'' demand and an ''anticipated'' future state.<ref>[[Thought leader]]s are no better ...his machine spits out another document, or while your stuff collects dust on his server.<ref>This is called “hosting” and it seems to be a cash cow.

...has entered into a valid agreement for the [[sale and purchase]], dated [[on or about]] the date hereof (the “'''Sale and Purchase Agreement'''”), o There’s a sign on the wall … <br>

On the conventional wisdom, [[bad apple]]s are the last remaining fly in the o Meanwhile the ''real'' bad apples carried on with their heroic poses — [[Bernie Madoff|NASDAQ chairmen]], [[Barings Ba

...rnly, deeply, out of the money. In a time of expansion or innovation, when demand was high, his salary ''should'' ratchet up in pleasing annual notches. In t ...so too were their employers''. Logically, they ''must'' be: the firms were on the other side of the same option after all.

...ream — might have a proposition on its hands. Especially one who builds it on an open-source platform. Like that will ever happen. ...or Tableau implementations to spreadsheets with jury-rigged macros stored on the C: drive, each developed by different teams and individuals, without th

...ten in 1984 — {{author|Charles Perrow}} passed away in 2019 — and it isn’t on the bookshelf of every [[thought leader]] in the land suggests that, maybe ...upled system, not merely a function of “operator error” that can be blamed on a negligent employee — although be assured, that is how management will b

==== On a lack of barking dogs ==== ...hiring the bad apples in the first place. [[Sidney Dekker]] is compelling on this.<ref>{{Fieldguide}}</ref>

...disasters of central planning, five-year plans, great leaps forward and so on.” These are ''theoretical'' philosophies: robust in concept but flimsy up We, the planet, demand that corporations to orient themselves towards ''all'' their “stakeholder

...by it under this {{isda87prov|Agreement}} if such failure is not remedied on or before the third {{isda87prov|Business Day}} after notice of such failur ...he party in accordance with this Agreement if such failure is not remedied on or before the thirtieth day after notice of such failure is given to the pa

For anyone who wants to hold forth on [[cryptocurrency]], for or against — and in financial services, that seem ...is impossible for non-initiates to get near it without being swatted away on ground of ''detail'' — insufficient grasp of buried, esoteric intellectua

...eatsack]]s in their pyjamas on ''my'' dime” and the more squirrelly, “hang on: if these clowns work at home we can nix half the downtown footprint and sl The debate chuntered on, recently coagulating around an unlikely, tearful graduate whom we got to k