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A [[salesperson]] approaches you with what is, on its face, a narrow and uncontroversial question — one to which, in your d ...ged around with caveats deep enough for you to jump into and hide in later on, should shots ring out:

...entils|jpg|Out of my cold dead hands.}}}}''Author’s note. I mean no slight on people who buy tinned lentils. Personally, I quite like them.'' ...veryone else buys none. Okay, ''almost'' none. The [[Reasonable man|person on the Clapham Omnibus]] might have ''one'' tin, at the back of the cupboard,

...the form of unrealised profit from live transactions, [[variation margin]] on swap positions credited to the customer’s account, or excess assets the c ...t stays as “margin excess” — see below — must give it back to the customer on request.

For example, the [[Bill Gates on a bus]] paradox: the ''average'' wealth of 99 bankrupts and one billionair ...target their product. The markets will be mature, barriers to entry high, demand inelastic and margins slim.

...r feel aggrieved at the world; the former is a bit like sticking something on eBay — hence, “[[Mark to market|marking-to-market]]” — and yields a ...s ''like'' yours — while at the same time ''not'' selling yours, remaining on risk to its forward price — and quite another to crystallise your gain an

...]]” — you can buy or sell any number in the blink of an eye of a keystroke on your Bloomberg terminal; a power station in the lawless mountainous badland [[Liquidity]] is really a function of the ease with which demand and supply can be matched. It will always be a job with big, complex, priva

...t for just long enough to justify a good old chomp ''before'' they pass it on, but each needs also to prepare for the consequences of the parcel, when it ...ssed are not. Each has its own team of assiduous [[legal eagle]]s who will demand ever-higher standards of prudence from their onward counterparties — one

...]] or a genuine contractual protection, only good for wiping your backside on. Bear in mind you are asking someone — on pain of them being found in [[Fundamental breach|fundamental breach of cont

...e of [[taste arbitrage]], a much simpler, [[physically-settled]], contract on the spot hip market. ...ory has it that {{author|Hunter Barkley}}, an enterprising hipness analyst on the [[taste arbitrage]] desk at [[Wickliffe Hampton]] stumbled upon the ide

...visions in the {{isdama}} and {{gmsla}} tend to go a lot wider, and allow (on default) a non-defaulting party to offset amounts owing against any liabili ...g “whether the cross-claim is ... so closely connected with the claimant’s demand that it would be manifestly unjust to allow it to enforce payment without t

...product: credit, tax, compliance etc: here you need their consent to carry on your task for someone else (usually the business). ...[[chief operating office]]. Here, ''they'' need ''your'' consent to carry on ''their'' function.

...he future not being as predictable as we would like, any platform designed on a controlled, owned basis has inadvertently designed-in [[planned obsolesce Therefore (i) they are unresponsive to real-time demand; (ii) they are expensive and high maintenance; (iii) they unnecessarily [[R

...ie NV v Simon Carves Ltd recently took the opportunity to clarify the test on equitable {{tag|set-off}}, which has been the subject of some uncertainty, ...ross-claim should be so closely connected that it impeaches the claimant's demand) is still relevant ({{casenote|Leon Corporation|Atlantic Lines and Navigati

...n the company, by leaving it at the company’s registered office, a written demand (in the prescribed form) requiring the company to pay the sum so due and th ::(b) if, in England and Wales, execution or other process issued on a judgment, decree or order of any court in favour of a creditor of the com

In none of these cases does the adjective “absolute” move the conversation on. ...want any. When, for example, you are exercising a reasonable discretion to demand more [[margin]], or something like that.

...period of discovery for we young [[associate]]s, trying to figure out what on earth {{isdaprov|Automatic Early Termination}} even meant, but charging som Go on: ask me why.

...text, the fewer people can do it and, by ordinary principles of supply and demand, the more they can charge. ...u repay whoever gives it back to you at maturity, with interest, depending on certain externalities” — is simple.

...o hundred and fifty pounds damages. This verdict we are asked to set aside on the ground of misdirection by the learned judge, the contention being that ...He is an ideal, a standard, the embodiment of all those qualities which we demand of the good citizen. No matter what may be the particular department of hum

...except in moderation, and even while he flogs his child is meditating only on the golden mean. Devoid, in short, of any human weakness, with not one sing

...|}}Just because your business holds the unchaperoned matching of supply to demand as an article of faith, it doesn’t follow that its organisational structu This magic ability to “manage upward” will not work on peers, all of whom will see the survivor for what he is, and bitterly rese