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In which the experts in the market got properly schooled by a bunch of daytraders. Acres have been ...|hedge-fund]] face''. This would have been different were the stock higher in its range. If the cash you have available for margin is limited — it is;

...d. It is predictable, finite, determinate and easy for the parties to hold in contemplation. “If I can’t go through with this the worst I can be stuc ...elsewhere (at exactly, or less than, her [[direct loss]]) and then used it in any of the ways she is now complaining about, to earn that money and mitiga

The stock-in-trade of a [[Middle management|middle manager]] and the [[management consul ...work in sociology and [[systems theory]], and at the same time go ignored in the upper tiers of corporate management:

To exercise “[[Pareto triage]]” is to move beyond the ''observation'' that, in a given period, eighty percent of your revenues may be attributed to twenty ...and instead concentrating on that lovely twenty percent segment who bring in all the rest of our income. }}

Dear old [[Grandma Contrarian]] demonstrated the sense in this adage countless times on the rambunctious young JC. To be sure, he cou ...ed to work as promised, leaked and then exploded, putting my mother-in-law in hospital and your warranty department is not answering the phone” but you

...orth that same amount tomorrow, and that any other merchant you might find in the market tomorrow will share your opinion. ...t payment. We are motivated by the machinery of the state to see the value in its currency.

That is to say, we all participate in power structures great and small, important and trivial, and they intersect Even people who ''complain'' about power structures — at least ones who do in an organised and compelling way — have a power structure. [[Critical theo

...nded fan-fiction universe ([[GMSLA]], [[GMRA]], [[DRV]], [[FBF]] etc), and in the documentation of [[debt securities]]. ...{eqderivprov|Calculation Agent}} and the {{eqderivprov|Determining Party}} in the {{eqdefs}}.</ref>

...t quickly from crowded theatres when someone yells fire or to hysterically buy, and then sell, [[Enron]] stock ''[[for fear of missing out]]'' — are not ...consecutive heads is ''0.5 x 10⁹⁹'', which you wouldn’t expect in several lifetimes of the universe.”

...sh altogether. So, “crap, or get off the pot”.}}}}“[[Use it or lose it]]”, in the vernacular. ...forced you to agree when you were a two-person start-up above a shoe-shop in Camden. I ''know'', right?

...ur. Wearer not identified.}} }}You may see this sort of clause, especially in a [[custody]] or [[agency]] agreement: ...d will not be liable for any action taken or [[Act or omission|not taken]] in reliance upon that advice''.<ref>The SPIRE version, for completists, is as

...same idea: a recurring, algorithmic process can ''reduce'' the [[entropy]] in a system. Creation comes from chaos. This is is as “dangerous” to Newto ...ry project, every transaction against a single, simple yardstick: ''was it in the [[Shareholder|shareholders]]’ best interest?''

'''April 2024''': “Shakespeare is known in our house as the gentleman who pays the rent.” — Judy Dench <br> ...the valleys, so does ancient sin cling to the low places, the depressions in the world consciousness.” — Dr. Louis Judd, ''The Anatomy of Atavism''

====In progress==== *[[Reasons to hope we are in a post truth world]]

...ence by critics of all eras that this time is different, yet so many still buy into the pyramid scheme that we are special. It is both self-aggrandising a ...e nice to people for a change, one girl sitting on her own in a small café in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all t

...tuitive, is so visionary, pluralistic and ''brilliant''. Anyone interested in how distributed networks should best be organised —or should be allowed t ...obs’ was one of the first, gave these remote principles vivid articulation in specific fields. Jacobs’ was urban planning — wait: bear with me — an

...reg tech]] ''solutions'' are alike; each reg tech ''problem'' is a problem in its own way.” <br> A fancy way of [[Do not buy a warranty on a toaster|selling a warranty on a toaster]].

...not easily [[scale]]: since intellectual property was necessarily embedded in a physical [[substrate]] — to read a novel you needed a physical book — ...n [[René Descartes|Cartesian]] terms, paper is physical, real-world stuff: in Descartes’ lexicon “[[res extensa]]”; [[intellectual property]] is ''

...you a large sum of money; you pay me interest, and eventually pay it back. In the mean time I am constantly beset by daemons, plagues, dread terrors and ...e syndicated amongst a bunch of borrowers. There are also traded interests in [[loan]]s called [[participation]]s. These may also be secured or unsecured

...tions under it are limited to a defined pool of assets. You see this a lot in [[repackaging]]s, [[securitisation]]s and other structured transactions inv ...d recourse obligation|secured note]]s, to investors and with the proceeds, buy securities, make investments and enter swaps, loans and other transactions