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  • Template:Sbf on bayesian priors
    ...n million people. By contrast, there are now upwards of a billion literate people in the Western sphere. What are the odds that the greatest writer would hav
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  • Tolerance
    ...things and opinions that ''you'' don't like. It does ''not'' mean stopping people who hold opinions you don’t like from expressing them. That's called ''in
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  • Reply-all
    {{a|email|}}A tool for easily distressing an unlimited number of people at once, for [[Thx|insincerely thanking]] them, and increasing the total mi Compound the resentment by addressing adult people many years your senior as “[[@]]andy”.
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  • People Anatomy
    #redirect[[Category:People]]
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  • Template:Deming on performance appraisal
    ...e to comprehend why they are inferior. It is unfair, as it ascribes to the people in a group differences that may be caused totally by the system that they w
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  • Ninja
    ...png|}}}}A ''deep'' [[subject matter expert]], in something so arcane these people are a blessèd relief to everyone else in the firm, just as long as you don
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  • Template:Anattitle-writer
    People who write good books, songs and stuff{{c|Writers}}
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  • Right-sizing
    Firing people. Usually [[subject matter expert]]s.
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  • Template:Anattitle-people
    {{anattitle|People}}{{c|Archetypes}}
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  • Breakfast in America
    A pop song sung by, and for, people who usually wind up with the [[Opel bloody Kadett]] in [[Top Trumps]]. Samp ...or that reason, to this very day, Breakfast in America infects millions of people around the world - including yours truly - with the delusional hope that on
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  • Market-maker
    {{a|people|}}One who facilitates trades on an exchange.
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  • Solutionise
    ''Ah, people ask me questions'' <br>
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  • Financial service
    ...is planet has — or rather ''had'' — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were An activity whereby a bunch of people without [[skin in the game]] pass [[Ultimate client|your]] [[money]] back a
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  • Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
    ...ce)|Authority]]''': We are more susceptible to following instructions from people in a putative position of authority. As to this see the Milgram experiments ...[[sheeple]] — ''they'' are. They will tend to behave in the same way that people in their social group and of their social status behave. Therefore if you c
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  • Operationalisation
    ...ugh not ''actually'' John Cryan, of course, any more.</ref>, and many good people will be disenfranchised and driven up the wall in the meantime.
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  • Proven track record
    {{a|people| ...on “[[proven track record]]” is on a [[Curriculum vitae|CV]], and the only people who have any use for [[CV]]s are looking for work, and if you are looking f
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  • Financial reporting
    {{a|people|}}“Well [[Enron|you know what happened]] ''last time'' someone tried to m
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  • Documentation unit
    {{a|people|}} *'''[[Chief Operating Officer]]''': Who the hell are these people and why do they cost so much? Where are the economies of scale?
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  • Hermione Grainger
    {{a|people|}}An especially effective member of the {{tag|compliance}} department. [[Mu
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  • Schwarzschild radius of institutional ennui
    People on the other side — your friends, loved ones; people who look up to you; whose respect you may once have earned — will see you
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  • Marketing
    {{A|people| }}Not to be confused with [[sales]], [[marketing]] are the people who — very much against every instinct they have ever had — are obliged
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  • Roll call
    ...those confessions will involve long periods of static, punctuated by five people speaking at once, and the convener will be obliged to ask them all to repea ...ld” means those people on the call, and the worse attendance is, the fewer people there are to witness the humiliation.
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  • The Bystander Effect: Understanding the Psychology of Courage and Inaction
    ...hough controversial — psychological phenomenon: why do good, well-adjusted people who ''could'' intervene to help a person in distress, not always help? ..., when given the opportunity to, don’t?” to the uninteresting one “why are people, and especially young white men, so horrid?” Undeniably true, is neither
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  • Template:Onworld and offworld negotiation
    ...to fit here because there are two perpendicular axes at play: ''How many'' people are you speaking to, and ''in what medium''. ...more people, the narrower will be their common interest. Plainly, the more people there are, the greater will be the cultural, social and human barriers to '
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  • Template:Isda 3(c) premium
    *More information, should you want it, as to why people ask for this clause, what it is driving at, why it does not make much diffe
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  • Founder and CEO
    {{a|people|}}Got made [[Redundancy|redundant]] after a lifetime clinging on in Operati
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  • Clifford Chance
    {{a|people|}}Magic circle firm. In the “[[extinction]]” camp when it comes to [[li
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  • Template:Hoffnung on cricket
    ...n a lawn, you know, and they sit around in deck chairs. And there are some people in the middle of the lawn, and they do something. There’s a chap with a b
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  • Salted fish
    People will remember you that way.
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  • Custody chain
    ...esn’t matter. In times of war, of course, as flak rains on your bunker and people are losing their heads, spending the time discovering how a [[custody chain Quite so: given how counter-intuitive it is, people thinking clearly about it ''should'' be confused. The fact that they tend n
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  • You do not inspire people by showing them how amazing you are, but by showing them how amazing they are
    ...up other people’s arse, not your own”<br>}}{{shitmaxim|You do not inspire people by showing them how amazing you are, but by showing them how amazing they a Even if they don’t, most people still like to be told they’re amazing, however implausible or disingenuou
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  • Followers
    ...able or mildly commendable, you are better off having a high percentage of people disliking you and your message (even intensely), combined with a low percen ...his probably points up the difference between Nigel Farage — who polarises people, but he’s hard to ignore — and whoever the leader of the Liberal Democr
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  • Template:M gen 2002 ISDA 6(d)
    ...[[Legal Eagles|eagles of the law]]. For our purposes, the trading and risk people need to come up with {{isdaprov|Close-out Amount}}s<ref>Or un-labelled equi
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  • Post-modernism
    Most right-thinking people think it’s the problem. Being a contrarian. I think it’s the solution.
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  • Excuse pre-loader
    {{A|people|}}The footballer who shows up with a “slight hamstring strain”; the wor In their heart of hearts, these people ''know''. You do, too. You will know them instinctively. You recognise them
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  • W. Edwards Deming
    ...one above — Mr. Deming was a man before his time. Either that, or we are a people ''after'' his time, since his ideas seem to have been pretty popular at the # '''Training on the job''': Train people on the job. Encourage people to ''learn'' on the job. ''Encourage self-improvement''
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  • Ground up strategy
    The observation that the people best incentivised to identify improvements to your IT offering are the poor
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  • Buy-side
    ...cut off or the Yaris repossessed — but in practice, if these fabled older people even exist, they are represented in the markets by those rapacious titans o
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  • Diaeresis
    {{def|Diaeresis|/dʌɪˈɪərɪsɪs/|pl. n.|}}(''For use impressing people at dinner parties'') The two dots above a continental [[ï]] (as, for examp
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  • System effect
    ...e office. This is a system effect, and not some conspiracy the man against people who can’t be bothered to commute.
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  • Play School through the arched window: title transfer collateral arrangements
    Don't be so STUPID, people. Do you really think Play School did a sequence on [[title transfer collate
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  • ADR
    *[[Alternative dispute resolution]] — mealy-mouthed time-wasting for people in denial about the legal system
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  • Life coach
    {{a|people|}}{{maxim|Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach. Those who can’t ev ...ersion of yourself}} is having a bit of a laugh, and that so many of these people can be routinely engaged by multinational firms ostensibly populated by tho
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  • Stakeholder
    {{a|people| 1. (''Within an organisation''): Fellow [[bureaucrat]]s. Other people in and around the firm who are paid more to care less. The word for the sen
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  • Master of the universe
    {{a|people|}}A coinage of {{author|Tom Wolfe}}’s to describe Sherman McCoy, ace bank
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  • Top Gun Lawyer
    {{a|people|{{image|Top Gun Lawyer|png|A Top Gun Lawyer, yesterday}}}}A real, proper, [
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  • Boy wizard
    {{a|people|}}In the [[Hary Poter]] argot, a young [[lawyer]] — one flush with the jo
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  • Freshfields
    {{a|people|}}A [[magic circle law firm]] headquartered in London, well-loved by its [[
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  • Designated investment - FCA Rulebook Term
    ...ed investment}}<s/small>}}}}In which the {{t|FCA}}, spurred on by the good people of the [[European Commission]], indulge in the four-dimensional Russian dol ...as the term isn’t defined and clearly means different things to different people.
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  • Trading
    {{a|people|}}The hard bastards of finance. Or the [[Lunch money|meek who have inherite
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  • Onworld
    ...].}}}}A massively-multiplayer online role-playing game, which increasingly people are confusing for real life. This is a shame.
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  • Template:M comp disc Equity Derivatives 12.8
    ...lel universe]], our mortal equivalents — ''good'' people; ''kind'' people; people who otherwise resemble ''you and me'', readers — who live, love and aspir
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  • Hotel Belvédère
    ...Travelodge Luton Airport? Sure, make it modern, minimalist and chic. Help people forget where they are. Let them injustice they could be literally anywhere ...should not want to be transported somewhere else. Wengen is a destination. People come here because it is one of the beautiful, magnificent places in the wor
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  • Squadsman
    {{a|myth|}}A crack paratrooper of the law. These people are like the Flying Squad, the Green Berets, they are the French Foreign Le
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  • Client
    {{a|people|}}“Hi Olly. The [[client]] returned the draft agreement. They’re fine w
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  • Chief operating officer
    {{a|people|}}The person whose official job description is to know the cost of everythi
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  • Psychological safety
    ...se intellectual friction, reduce social friction. Create environment where people can challenge ideas
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  • CF10A
    {{a|people|{{image|CASS Garb|png|A [[CASS officer]]’s ceremonial Mithril garb.}}}}Th ...0A]] is next-least coveted position in the organisation, and is awarded to people the same way Joe Pesci became a “made guy” in ''Goodfellas''.
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  • Furnishing
    For most people, the ugly ''chaise-longue'' you were emotionally blackmailed into acquiring
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  • Flexible working
    ...rporation is a social (if not to say ''[[socialist]]'') institution, where people are compensated for unwavering commitment, blood, sweat and tears.
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  • I don't disagree with you
    Closely related expression, courtesy of those wonderful [[Game of Thrones]] people:
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  • Dog-and-pony show
    ...ized corporate organisation. Also, on account of its capacity for creating people who inhabit that layer, the process of obtaining a [[MBA|Masters of Busines
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  • Arthur Andersen
    {{a|people|}}A cautionary tale. The great [[falsification]] of [[Chicken Licken]]: som
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  • (but need not)
    That is, people ''who should not be [[professional writer]]s''.
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  • The Jolly Contrarian:General disclaimer
    ===For regular people=== ...uff up, so (a) if you find the site valuable, tell your friends — the more people who use it the more chance I have of making something out of it one day —
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  • Chief financial officer
    {{a|people|}}Ideally a stable, steady, dull individual who, in his most passionate mom
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  • It’s not a fucking competition
    {{a|maxim|}}There are ''eight billion'' people in the world. if you think you are in a competition with them, ''you will l Only people who are in a competition try to be like someone else. So don’t be in. Com
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  • Silver circle law firm
    {{a|people|}}A [[law firm]], like [[Simmons & Simmons]], with an aching yen to be [[Ma
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  • ***TOP URGENT***
    ...is, in the subject line, is guaranteed to make every one of the thirty six people to whom you have sent it, drop everything and read your email.
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  • Template:Ninth law of worker entropy
    '''The [[JC]]’s [[ninth law of worker entropy]]''': As the number of people involved in negotiating a {{tag|contract}} goes ''up'', its brevity, compre
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  • Joint and several liability
    ...aw should be at her side. That her loss is recoverable from a ''bunch'' of people, rather than just one, ought to be a good thing, and will allow her to proc ...as encountered it, he has mainly wished it prevailed more often. Like most people he has
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  • Omnibus
    Means different things to different people.
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  • Meeting avoidance tactics
    ...ogical barriers to candid communication: who calls bullshit in front of 40 people? So do your bit to keep the meeting tight and effective: ...space and time. They impose a boundary within which you must concentrate. People can see you; they know if you tune out. Switch off your phone. Don’t mult
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  • Diver
    {{A|people|}}One who on the merest suggestion of a contact, however benign, will go do
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  • Internal Revenue Code of 1986
    ...ax lawyer|Those who pay them fealty]] tend to be nervy, fractious sorts of people.
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  • Template:M summ 2016 CSA Transferee
    ...it Support}} on any {{vmcsaprov|Valuation Date}}, basically ... which most people with a reading age above seven would deduce from the word “{{vmcsaprov|tr
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  • Risk controller
    People in these departments: These poor people are the wrong side of an asymmetric option: no [[risk controller]] ever got
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  • Template:M summ GMSLA 11.8
    ...bit more blasé about it, in that is seems not to bother with the fix most people apply to the ISDA.
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  • Opco
    *An [[operating committee]] a vehicle by which dozen s of people gather to stare at weighty [[PowerPoint]] decks and “socialise” — mea
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  • Council
    ...ncilium'', the {{tag|Latin}} word for an assembly or convocation of clever people: ''con-'' (‘together’) + ''calare'' (‘to summon’). <br> 1. A municipal body where mediocre people make bad decisions about local affairs. <br>
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  • Passive
    ...ere is what Dr. Eva Dabrowska, of Northumbria University, has to say about people who overuse the passive tense: {{quote|“''Our results show that a proportion of people with low educational attainment make errors with understanding the passive,
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  • Commercial contract
    ...der the [[Sovereign Immunity Act 1978]], [[sovereign]]s being the sorts of people that don’t always do things for commercial, practical, sensible or even c
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  • Certification
    ...effectively destroyed or put beyond practical use will send normally sober people scuttling for exits, leaping into laundry baskets, planking, and painting t
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  • Template:M comp disc IETA Force Majeure
    ..., and that would confuse people even beyond ISDA’s tolerance for confusing people.<ref>Seeing as the {{ietama}} borrows a bit of technology from the {{1992ma
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  • Law firm
    {{a|people|}}Issuer of [[legal opinions]], supplier of [[inhouse counsel]], pliers of
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  • Gumizzler
    ...]] is a “[[jimsler]]” man, though he holds nothing against “[[gumizzler]]” people. </ref> — of enunciating “[[GMSLA]]”, the abbreviation for the {{gms
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  • Statue of limitations
    As the marble hunks fell like great meteors into the sea around them the people cried, “hark! [[Chicken licken|The sky is falling upon our heads]]!” In a final irony, none of the people responsible for either the commissioning of the sculpture, its [[negligent]
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  • Multi-task
    ...Middle-management]] jargon which means to “browse the internet”. What most people do during most [[all-hands conference call]]s and the brazen do during [[me
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  • Homo economicus
    ...[[reasonable man]], and (in tendency to suggest the collective madness of people who should really know better) the [[hypothetical broker dealer]].
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  • Template:Csa Scope of this Annex overview
    In the year of our Lord 2016, it is gratifying to see that the good people of {{tag|ISDA}} and their friends, relations, cherubim and seraphin, gog an
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  • Control function
    {{a|people|}}The sainted people who, because they are paid purely to worry themselves about [[Chicken Licke
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  • Stupidity
    * Stupid people are ''worse'' that bandits. At least ''someone'' derives a benefit from ban * We systematically underestimate how many stupid people there are.
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  • MF Global
    {{a|people|}}“Never forget [[MF Global]]”: a [[magic incantation]] of similar effe
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  • Compliance
    {{a|people|}}{{d|Compliance officer|/kəmˈplaɪəns ˈɒfɪsə/|n|}}
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  • Results-driven
    ...every application of force to object, however ill-advised, we wonder what people think they are establishing by claiming to be “results-driven”. ...e impact on the world, good or ill — in fairness, that’s a great number of people — then you might want to put something a little more specific in your pro
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  • Communication
    ...e law, but to be able to plainly and clearly communicate that expertise to people who are not. Those people are called “[[clients]]”. Clients — even sophisticated ones — [[Q.E
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  • Calculation period
    ...for example, an [[interest period]]. Of great [[interest]] to the sorts of people who find [[calculation period]]s ''interesting''<ref>There's a fairly weak
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  • Template:M gen 2002 ISDA 5(a)(viii)
    There’s not a lot of [[case law]] on it. Some say 90%. Some say 75%. Some people — your correspondent included — say “shoot me”.
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  • Talk:Legal services delivery
    Requiring less expensive, less experienced people to handle these over-engineered processes will create not just additional w ...one, with non-linear interconnections and risk, which require experienced people to exercise expert judgments in real time.
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  • Assignment
    ...obligation is to the assignee and not the assignor. This can give certain people the hives, as regards [[AML]] and so on. ...te common to see [[broker]] and service provider contracts refusing to let people assign their rights, at least, not without consent. It isn’t clear why an
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  • ISDA ingénue
    ...re all, in our way, [[ISDA ingénues]], but really the term is reserved for people that might not know you ''never'' say “[[eye-ess-dee-aye]]” and most ce
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  • Introducing broker
    {{a|people|}}The financial services equivalent of one of those bossy friends who is al
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  • Serious people
    ...s people|gif|You know it.}} }}{{quote|“I love you, but you are not serious people.” ...reat delamination]], it seems, quietly, that the epic shortage of “serious people” that characterised its first decade seems — somewhat? — to be fading
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  • Rubbish maxims
    *{{shitmaxim|You do not inspire people by showing them how amazing you are, but by showing them how amazing they a ...appreciate those who lift you up. Be a lifter}} — or, be the one who lets people down and have an equal impact.
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  • Template:ESLA - FWMD
    {{fwmdtt|nickname=ESLA| imagetype=png| tagline= It’s stock lending, for posh people.| documentation= Appendage to a [[GMSLA|stock lending agreement]]. Extra ma
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  • Dewey decimal system
    ...Lehmans]]''. Well, it ''was'', any rate. Who knew that an online store for people living off the grid would outlive a Wall Street behemoth?</ref>.
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  • SICAF
    ...xe]]'' is a [[closed-ended]] [[collective investment scheme]] popular with people who speak French. To be compared with a [[société d’investissement à c
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  • Spans and layers
    ...r that McKinsey (38,000 staff),<ref>[https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/people-and-organizational-performance/our-insights/how-to-identify-the-right-spans ...a half-hearted commitment to a maximum span of five, from the consultancy “People Puzzles”. Why? Apparently, ''To make performance appraisal easier''. This
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  • Cricket
    ...t simply as a game played between spells of rain over a period of weeks by people wearing old fashioned tennis gear, are prone to writing it off as utterly [
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  • Hooker
    ...ty, such as [[hedge fund]] managers. This goes some way to explaining what people on the left find so contemptuous about the financial services industry.
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  • Muggle eagles
    {{a|people|}}A [[legal eagle]] unpossessed of any ninjery and unschooled in the ways o
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  • Heroes don’t wear capes
    ...hey don’t seek validation when heroism comes their way, either. Only needy people need [[awards|validation]].
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  • Template:Insolvency vs insolvency filing
    ...en {{icds}} would struggle to capably answer, but the reality is that this people tend to disapply {{eqderivprov|Insolvency Filing}}, as it is covered by oth
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  • The Wealth of Nations
    ...any still do, with, “assuming we all pull together for the common good and people aren’t selfish...”
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  • Administrator
    {{a|work|}}{{dpn|/ədˈmɪnɪstreɪtə/|n|}}One of that class of people who are not [[subject matter expert]]s, don’t understand the [[territory]
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  • Service delivery
    {{a|people| [[Service delivery]] people have thus two principle means of progression in the organisation: either th
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  • Head of the documentation unit
    {{a|people|{{image|Dead man walking|jpg|The [[head of the documentation unit]] yesterd ...t]]. It is an opportunity for advancement, you see: managing three hundred people, in six centres across seven time zones, with a chance to overhaul a broken
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  • Let it go
    ...will live. It will make you stronger. Dwelling on it won’t, and if you do, people you respect will think less of you. And they won’t tell you.
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  • Futures
    ...margin]] is not rewarding, constructive or fun. But there are thousands of people around the world engaged in doing it, and you can cry into each other’s b ...ing videos quite funny. This is largely down to Ed Parker — one of the few people in the world who manages to see the funny side of [[financial services]] re
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  • Discourse on the Method
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  • Template:Type of Return and swaps on futures
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  • Human, all too human
    ...ire institutional knowledge. Nonetheless, management theory likes to treat people like potatoes. They even name them like potatoes: “Human capital” makes ...which an no-one has written a bullet-proof decision tree. It’s hard to see people like this as interchangeable units when you see, up close, what they do and
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  • Sparklemotion
    ...ust be restricted in an almost vicious manner. Use a small number of good ­people (ten to 25 per cent compared to the so-called normal systems). This should ...cret outside it''': Let the people in the group have the big picture. Tell people what you ''have'' achieved, not what you're planning to achieve. Hence: no
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  • Prime brokerage transactions
    ...ving under a bridge while people on [[Twitter]] — stupid, misunderstanding people — will make fun of you. Think carefully before betting wildly against the
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  • Template:Motion
    ...r to finalise the contract is far less. and another shout out for the good people of [[plain English]] and lean, elegant legal prose, but if you can say it i
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  • Template:M summ EUA Annex (d)(viii)
    ...measure shutting the “carousel fraud” loophole that used to allow naughty people to charge VAT and then disappear before remitting it to tax authorities.
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  • Partnership
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  • Steering committee
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  • LinkedIn job descriptions
    ...r example, is traditionally regarded as the most benign environment, where people speak soberly, though not without liberal helpings of [[passive aggression]
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  • Velvet cushion
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  • Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
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  • Locust
    ...a Christian Democrat — a [[plague of locusts]] is ''not'' a good sign for people of that disposition.
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  • Partner
    {{a|people|}}[[Partner]]s are the sainted men and women who own, and reap equity benef
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  • Operations
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  • RESIDENTS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
    ===[[New Hampshire]]people ''deserve'' to be shouted at?=== ===[[New Hampshire]]people ''like'' being shouted at?===
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  • Global financial crisis
    ...here you looked, Morgan Stanley was on fire, the world was BURNING man and people were wandering round dazed and shell shocked and living under bridges in Ma
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  • Operator
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  • Copyright
    ...infringement: here the very business motivation for creating them is that people who read them will be prepared to pay for them
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  • Trainee
    {{a|people|{{image|trainee|jpg|[[Sullivan & Cromwell]]’s induction programme, yester ...predictable dumpster fire, which woofs, explodes and quickly burns out as people move on, forget, come to their senses, or are distracted by the next bauble
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  • Discretionary trust
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  • If you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room
    '''Clever people''': Bad news for brain-boxes. They must now continually absent themselves f '''Stupid people''': It is little better for we of the great, face-slapping mediocrity. Even
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  • Escalation threshold
    The idea is to condition junior people in other organizational units to escalate ''up'' their formal command chain
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  • Capital allocation
    ...cosy cultured order of commerce, they won’t change that, but all the same people who should know better — and many who ''do'' know better — will believe *Intermediating: finding people who won’t or can’t contribute capital directly to a business and persua
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  • The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
    .... Nation-states formed by underlining and emphasising characteristics that people held in common, particularly spoken language. This facilitated rule without
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  • Template:M summ 2016 NY VM CSA Obligations
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  • Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life
    ...religious myself: just more pleasantly disposed to religion and religious people than some of my atheist confreres. ...ously, without unease or mental torment. Dawkin’s best guess is that these people are systematically deluded: hardly a useful or scientific approach, you wou
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  • Disclosure required where held under banking exemption - CASS Provision
    ...in connection with [[designated investment business]]. So you have to tell people you are acting as banker when, strictly speaking, you’re not.
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  • Template:Standpoint capsule
    ...interests are served by optimising their own grievances. They are not fun people. They probably don’t have much fun. Don’t be like that. The decisions w
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  • Third party
    Tony Blair, of all people, tried to warp the continuum with his ill-fated [[Contracts (Rights of Thir
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  • Anus matronae parvae malas leges faciunt
    We at the [[Jolly Contrarian]] are fond of people like Mrs. Lisle-Mainwaring and her spiritual counterpart, [[Albert Haddock]
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  • Coronavirus
    ...anufacturer of Lemsip, Nurofen and Strepsils, Durex and K-Y jelly, because people are washing their hands all the time, wearing gas-masks and hazchem suits t ...it not having occurred to anyone that in an actual disaster, four thousand people would turn up in 4X4s and all want lunch at once.
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  • Template:M summ EUA Annex Long-Stop Date
    Which results in a weird outcome we are almost certain people will overwrite: If your delivery obligation fell on the 29th December 2023,
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  • Collateralised emissions obligations
    ...uld chortle, selling these things out to the most vulnerable and credulous people in society: minimum-wage hospitality workers, the elderly, the infirm, the
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  • Template:M tldr isda qualities of a good ISDA
    ...when you need those carefully wrangled terms, they will need to be clear. People will be acting out a Rudyard Kipling poem. Make sure you are as well-positi
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  • Template:Crypto technocracy
    ...blem of regulation is not technocratic but ''human''. Libertarians, of all people, should understand regulations not as abstract technical artefacts that cre
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  • Regulatory perimeter
    ...nce if I anchored a mile outside their territorial waters, and invite rich people to sail out on their yachts to see me, for all their investment needs?”}} At what point, in her dealings with the people of Florin, does she become subject to Florin’s laws, customs and most imp
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  • Data retention
    ...ue ''because IT people don’t understand what other office workers do.'' It people are fond of saying “email is just a messaging system. It is not a file ma
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  • Chose in possession
    ...hat, before the [[great bifurcation]], was almost inconceivable to frame — people would look at you funny if you tried to distinguish between the physical an
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  • The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power
    ...A town meeting is called where these well-intentioned but basically dense people are confronted with some fairly obvious truths: ...l, if you don’t like what they do, don’t use ’em. That’s the way I see the people’s power is.”}}
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  • Insurance
    ...zed [[risk]]. The theory is that by being a small part of a large class of people each of whom paying an affordable running [[premium]], you are protected fr In a group of 1000 people, each has a 1% chance of a £100,000 loss in a ten year period.
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  • Technology paradox
    {{a|tech|}}{{quote|“What people mean by the word ''technology'' is stuff that doesn't really work yet”
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  • Proxy
    Also, a sort of [[Proxy jetlag|synthetic jet-lag]], caused by cohabiting with people — children, usually — who have ''actual'' jet-lag.
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  • Thx
    ...ly-all]] mail, [[thx]] has the potential to vaguely irritate a lot of busy people at once.
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  • The tempest
    ...le, the natural order of things; the normal laws of commerce stop working. People behave erratically, irrationally and unexpectedly. Some who have hitherto b
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  • Redundancy
    “If we fix this process, these people will be [[out of a job]].” ...around to the view, after nearly three decades in the city, that ''most'' people have not felt the following):
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  • Management consultant
    {{A|people|[[File:Sucked_Egg.gif|450px|center|A management consultant’s strategy yes One of those people with an [[MBA]] who is profoundly deaf to protest “that is easier said th
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  • Template:Barnacles
    ...finding their way into, and encrusting, [[negotiation]] templates. And, as people move on, their original justification — if there even was one — becomes
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  • Lived experience
    ...social institutions like school, university, work, the internet and, well, people on it who witter on about “lived experiences” all the time. Yes: like ...ce, kids, from the Dale Carnegie school of winning friends and influencing people: frame your interactions with the world in terms of ''others''’ lived exp
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  • Techbro on the Clapham Omnibus
    ...w to cheer up British commuters, yesterday.}}}}Say there are 35 reasonable people aboard a Clapham omnibus. Being key workers — nurses, police, teachers an
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  • Comfortable
    ...ompare with ''critical'' risks, which are risks that ''don’t'' look big to people who ''do'' understand them, but ''are'' big. They don’t recognise them be ...on’t have to, because should this whole thing turn to mud, ''so many other people'' will be put in the stockade before she is that those lovely portals — s
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  • Ally
    I mean, do you know what the secret society ''[[senum pallidorum]]'' does to people who break its sacred oaths? These dudes don’t muck around, you know. They
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  • Don’t take a piece of paper to a knife-fight
    ...king ''anything'' in a document that no-one will ever read again, and most people in your organisation wouldn’t understand even if they did, is a really ba ...e market; the experience and expertise of your front-line trading and risk people. Only they can cope with the mortal risks of a [[complex]], non-linear syst
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  • Dotted line
    ...ontally, by region — meaning the same person can be reporting fully to two people at once, or even more if your management structure cannot be articulated in
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  • Template:Indemnitycapsule
    ...anything different — and in this old salt’s long and grim experience, many people who should know far better will — should be [[Get your coat|directed to t
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  • Permitted Receivers - OneNDA Provision
    {{confianat|2}}The kinds of people you’ll want to allow access to the {{confiprov|confidential information}} ...{confiprov|Necessary Person}}s'''” or something equally [[tedious]]. Those people may be:
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  • Age of the Dragons
    ...gh energy and a sufficiently plausible straight face to persuade all those people, and their financiers, of its fundamental worthwhileness to even be made? ...of day is, simply put, a cock-up, for which someone – probably quite a few people – will be fired.
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  • Knowledge management
    ...knowledge management system — there is a scale opportunity if you can get people to share their systems in an intuitive way. The best example of this is, of
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  • Certainty
    {{Image|preggie test|jpg|Because even stupid people need pregnancy detector kits. They need them ''more''. }} }}{{quote|If you are wholly predictable, people learn to hack you.
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  • Metric
    ...pg|So long, and thanks for all the fish}}}}{{quote|When everything about a people is for the time growing weak and ineffective, it begins to talk about effic ...rk any target you set to suit themselves. If you tax by number of windows, people will board up their windows.<ref>See James C. Scott’s epic {{Br|Seeing Li
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  • Universal affirmative
    ...converted. “All of Alma Cogan is dead, but only some of the class of dead people are Alma Cogan.”
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  • Novelty fatigue
    ...ema, [[Outsourcing]], Total Quality Management, [[Human Resources]] — when people go, “okay I see what’s going on here: this seemed fun but is really kin
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  • Libtard
    {{a|people|{{image|imagine|png|Some cooped-up [[libtard]]s singing ''[[Imagine]]'' yes
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  • Weeds
    ...department]] in any commercial organisation is a place of entropic stasis. People go there to die. They eventually get crushed under the weight of of tedium, ...d anecdote to support this assertion, but he still feels it strongly: most people in the world who spend the five or more years it commonly takes to qualify
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  • Twitter Rules
    |You may not threaten violence against an individual or a group of people. We also prohibit the glorification of violence. |You may not engage in the targeted harassment of someone, or incite other people to do so. This includes wishing or hoping that someone experiences physical
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  • Rory Sutherland
    ...ration of the journey. You’ll still have about £3 billion pounds left and people will ask for the trains to be slowed down.
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  • Foreign exchange
    ...“{{tag|FX}}”. It is a subject which prompts whoops of excitement from some people and howls of anguish from others.
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  • Template:Work to rule capsule
    {{quote|What does it mean? It means that if people don’t want to or cannot go on strike they say to one another: “let’s
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  • Bonus
    ...l supply their labour, time and effort. In the modern argot, we call these people “employees”, though an important nuance — namely, ''servitude'' — i ...rive at the same conclusion: keep basic pay as low as possible, and reward people with a big fat annual bonus. Financial services bonuses can be three, four,
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  • Modernism
    ...wars, a cold one, two political ideologies that murdered a hundred million people between them, and if that wasn’t enough, an enormous, decade-long recessi In Web 2.1 you could like it when other people complained about the books they bought online.
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  • Chess
    ...all intents and purposes, about fifty, but it keeps changing. People come, people go. Business priorities change. [[GFC]]. [[Brexit]]. [[Covid]]. [[Managemen
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  • Hedge fund
    ...ing. This was a more fun game before the world got rocked on its axis by ''people on Reddit'', and the Wikipedia effect came to the financial services market
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  • Credit officer
    {{a|people|{{image|Credit department|jpg|The [[Credit]] department, yesterday. Or mayb
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  • Butterfly effect
    This is ''not'' the same as saying, as people are prone to, that “a butterfly flapping its wings in the Amazon causes a People who not only should, but do know better, can fall into this trap. “To sho
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  • Legal process outsourcer
    {{a|people|}}{{quote|
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  • Knowable unknown
    ...t]] in 1998, the entire [[financial services]] industry in 2008, and those people who mistook [[Sam Bankman-Fried|Sam Bankman Fried]] for some kind of genius
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  • Interminable game
    ...e of what might yet be. So it should be no wonder that '' that’s what most people do most of the time''. |+ What happens when people miss the point.
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  • Buy-side legal eagle
    {{a|people|}}A [[legal eagle]] who works for an [[asset manager]] or a [[hedge fund]].
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  • Ergodicity
    ...ion several times — with those of ''parallel'' probabilities — ''several'' people performing a single action once each. If those two payoffs are the same, th ...obable outcomes from flipping a coin are ergodic. It doesn’t matter if ten people flip a coin once, or one person flips it ten times, the odds are the same:
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  • Carry trade
    ...he first place. When the Yen then rallied 98% in the next 18 months, a few people might have taken a bath. Things got back to normal, but the boring old [[Ne
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  • Template:Key person capsule
    In a gaucher times called a [[key man|key ''man'']], the [[key person]] — or people — are those in a small financial services organisation who provide the li
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  • Non sis arsholeus nec mercatum cum arsholibus facias
    ...a {{tag|contract}}, negotiating one, reading one, going on tour, treating people you meet in your travels, and in life generally.
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  • Template:Erisa netting
    ...lation and as become some kind of sacred article of faith for the American people. ''No-one'' is amending that. All that is left is creative interpretation
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  • Legal eagle
    {{a|people|{{image|Legal eagle|jpg|A [[chicken licken|legal eagle]] yesterday}}}}''Leg ...dress the personnel from the [[legal department]], used by junior [[sales]]people in the sincere but mistaken belief it would ward off, and not compound, the
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  • Hype cycle
    ...sis]], a sign of our credulous times. Every year, Gartner ''[who are these people? What have they ever done? — Ed]'' plots the expectations of emerging tec
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  • Service line
    ...you need to know your organisation is captive of moribund bureaucrats and people with [[MBA]]s.
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  • Determinism
    ...ght, but because [[reductionist]]s are so terrified of [[post-modernism]], people tend to swallow it and just go with it, no matter how insane its consequenc
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  • Blockchain as a service
    ...who admire at least its staggering chutzpah — as the instant solution for people who, one one hand, so distrust financial intermediaries that they would cas
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  • Ask nicely
    ...what'' you say. This is hardly news: {{br|How to Win Friends and Influence People}} is 85 years old. ...out of the debate. You should, too: people are polarised on the issue so, people on either side of the issue are your customers, don’t take a position. Yo
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  • Daniel Susskind
    ...rough some kind of Lamarckian [[evolution]], for there seem to be only two people on the planet prepared to make such strident arguments to this effect — o
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  • Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas that Don’t Make Sense
    “'''Satisficing'''”— understanding that in times of uncertainty, people care more about ''variance'' between best and worst outcomes, and not just ...e presumption, right or wrong, that the average is where you find the most people, the average is the point every other bastard is targeting too. As {{author
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  • Bid and offer
    These people depend for their livelihoods on being able to sell that thing for a higher
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  • Empathy and compassion
    {{a|mgmt|{{image|khaleesi|jpg|The irony is lost on people we fear.}}{{image|heroes|jpeg|For the slow on the uptake.}} }}{{c|newslette ...just does it, favouring kin, familiarity, tribe and self-identity. Those people you most instinctively identify with.
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  • Terms of business
    ...badly in need of streamlining its own [[legal]] department is. If you have people prepared to argue the toss about TOBs, you have a working illustration of [
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  • Swap
    ...tives insiders to dine out on your misfortune for many years. I still tell people about an [[Condition precedent|unfortunate partner of Stephenson Harwood]]
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  • Template:Withholding and deduction pedantry
    ...don’t think there’s a difference. Arguably it’s done for clarity, because people normally say “withholding tax” but technically there’s no such thing
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  • Critical theory
    But this isn’t to say there aren’t mean-spirited, selfish or illiberal people doing mean-spirited, selfish or illiberal things in the name of social just
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  • Mediocrity drift
    ...ess you make them'', by performance management or through a [[RIF]]. These people, therefore, are generally ''overpaid''. That’s why they stay.
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  • Template:Csa Security summ
    ...]] for these people, they take it very seriously, and don’t take kindly to people down-playing its significance so practical advice (a) don’t fiddle with i ''Will'' anyone try to tweak it? You hope not, but then people insist on putting a counterparts clause in an NDA, so JC is beyond being su
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  • Telex
    So people DO still use it. Just not for {{isdama}}s. But actually what an awesome plo
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  • Change in law
    ...ly have some grace period: even sanctions imposed when Russia invades give people a small amount of time to divest their offending assets.
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  • Diversity
    ...}}}}There is ''actual'' diversity — assembling teams of actually different people from different backgrounds, of different ages, genders, races, with varying ...ed in the image of those whose are already at the top of the industry, the people who made it to the top of the industry are ''mediocre'' and they are ''all
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  • Hold music
    A badge of [[Früheankunftfreude|honour]] amongst people of a certain disposition (“''[[warteschleifenmusikopfer]]''”) — they
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  • Adjacent possible
    ...t otherwise see. You could do it too, by calling a physical meeting, where people have no choice to be engaged, rather than a large online Skype gathering, w
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  • Runner Runner - Film Review
    ...ng hapless local thugs to [[crocodiles]]. Here’s the news, folks: the only people who make money in tax havens by actually living there do so by preparing [[
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  • Promotion at random
    ...id not — even if this risks destroying short term local relationships with people you are outcompeting. ...propels the experimental finding from 2010 that organisations that promote people at random do no worse than those with extensive performance appraisal proce
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  • The Hopper
    Set up a "google translate" type dialogue box to train people to put simplified constructions in.
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  • Seventh law of worker entropy
    ...ttle more than an articulation of the following: if you want to change how people do things, ''make it easier for them''. Not ''harder''.
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  • Licence
    ...time) or ''non''-exclusive (as with [[intellectual property]], where many people can share the right without upsetting each other).
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  • Chief executive officer
    {{a|people|}}''A propos'' the cult of personality that attends all large organisations
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  • Mediocre you
    False assumption: that the people who get to the top necessarily deserve it. *''Seven Habits of Highly Effective People'' sold 25,000,000 copies. So even if it were true that these were the diffe
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  • User experience
    ...ponsible for this email. There should be a named individual in it, to whom people can complain. This might encourage that person to spend a moment on user ex
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  • EBayer’s dilemma
    ...£100<ref>The eBayers don’t ''have'' to be drunk, but as we all know, most people on eBay ''are'', so this is a bit of dramatic colour.</ref>.
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  • Runbook
    If you are applying a [[runbook]] effectively to a large organisation of people, you have already drastically mis-allocated your resources, since [[meatwar
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  • Template:M intro devil expected value
    ...than the expected value of anything you might do to save the lives of the people who currently happen to be alive.
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  • Know your client
    *Get to know them. Encourage operational people to communicate informally and often. Encourage operational social interacti
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  • Family office
    Investors are generally diverse, and different people to the [[Manager|investment manager]]<nowiki/>s, and for everyone’s peace ...ie, the [[rentsmith]]s soon arrive: an office manager, some [[operations]] people, a [[general counsel]], and before you know it they are have a full-scale p
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  • Template:M summ Equity Derivatives 6.7
    ...ng out US equity derivatives, because it is mostly likely to keep your tax people jumpy, who worry about re-characterising high-delta equity derivatives as d
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  • First-loss
    ...ss on your average mortgage portfolio is about 5%,” these [[super-senior]] people would think, “and I have ''four'' [[tranche]]s below me, absorbing up to
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  • Template:M intro banking Minsky moment
    *'''Profit-taking''': Smart people call the top of the market and sell
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  • Lentil convexity
    ...ils|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.'' ...ution]] of weekly lentil acquisition. The random variation in purchases by people in the different demographic groups will cause a small fluctuation in in de
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  • Cayman Islands rum cake
    Many people around the world make it their business to deal with [[Cayman Islands]] {{t But will anyone ever stump up to let these poor people actually ''go'' out there? Like, even to conduct [[due diligence]] or somet
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  • Co-head
    ...[[HR]], with the first clue about human nature<ref>It goes without saying people in human resources have not the first clue about human nature.</ref> buys t {{c2|People|Office life}}
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  • Template:M summ GMRA 16
    ...orical artefact of the “[[I never said it would]]” variety — at some point people feared that come the millennium lifts would stop working, planes would fall
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  • Template:Capsule insolvency termination
    ...suddenly frozen while the market is gyrating like a belly-dancer, and the people who you are trading with wandering around on the pavement outside their off
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  • Stock loan ninja
    {{a|people|{{image|Stock Loan Ninka|png|Deep into the plumbing of the financial system
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  • Template:Apocalypse maxim
    Why did people do what they did when it was so obviously stupid looking back at it? Well,
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  • Template:Representationdescription
    ...my clever appeals to the judgment of [[Man on the Clapham Omnibus|prudent people on public transport in south London]] to work out how you must treat each o
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  • Template:Isda 2(a) summ
    ...negotiator]]s on the way ''in''to a swap trading relationship — few enough people understand it sufficiently well to argue about it — but if, as it surely
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  • The future
    This history of the world is stuffed with injustice. Few people in the history of the world cannot tell you a story about how they were don
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  • Black duck
    ...are like [[black swan]]s — ''exactly'' the same, in fact — only easier for people on [[Twitter]] to be judgmental about. The key, for such a bank executive,
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  • Perfection is the enemy of good enough
    “Good enough” is enough to satisfy most people other than [[lawyers]] and the kind of child<ref>And what do children like
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  • Cost-value threshold
    But practically — given difficulty understanding what these people actually do, let alone how valuable it is, human frailties, mortal weakness
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  • Stupid banker cases
    ...e “stupid banker” cases, which involve bankers negligently paying money to people they didn’t mean to, who then refuse to give it back.
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  • Good standing
    But your onboarding and credit people ought to be — well — ''doing their job'', and if they are l, weaknesses
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  • Synthetic prime brokerage
    ...ity swap]]s, [[contracts for difference]]<ref>This has been apt to confuse people; be warned.</ref> or [[high-delta equity derivative]]s.'' Cryptic crossword ...in, that it had any.</ref> it has not vanished entirely so, if your US tax people run true to the [[JC]]’s experience, you may have to persevere with it.
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  • Net asset value
    ...to be closely correlated. If the fund’s performance is going gang busters, people tend to HODL. If, on the other hand, it’s going full Neil Woodford, expec
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  • Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
    ...''another'' gestalt psychologist, Sam Glucksberg to make it interesting to people who think investment bankers are poorly incentivised. Glucksberg ran the ca
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  • Great dogma of contract negotiation
    ...ndustry. Today any good-sized institution will have literally hundreds of people in [[onboarding]], [[AML]], [[credit]] sanctioning, [[legal]] and [[documen ...s, is lifted and shifted from a high-cost jurisdiction (where at least the people concerned have some institutional knowledge, some industry experience and a
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  • Negotiator
    {{a|people|[[File:Mithril.jpg|center|450px|frame|Some discreet [[hobbit]]s yesterday.]
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  • Legaltech entrepreneur
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  • Frank
    ...ght a list of 4.5m actual high school students, college students and young people from a marketing firm for $105,000. ...to the JPMC client outreach team. Javice sent botch up of the actual young people data list they bought.
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  • Template:Emissions Allowance Price summ
    ...help someone not intimately familiar with the documentation. The number of people in the world ''who'' are intimately familiar with the Emissions Annex, by t
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  • Maxims for a happy life
    *[[Talk is cheap]]: Judge people by what they do, not what they say.
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  • Template:M gen 2002 ISDA 3(b)
    ...and elves, by the {{cotw}}. They were a species of pre-derivative, banking people. It is possible they had in mind the sort of [[restrictive covenant]]s a ba
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  • Assignment by way of security
    ...loating charge|floating]] charge, which means you may wind up behind other people in the queue.
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  • LegalHub
    ...ny iteration. Including the source code of the App (like MediaWiki). Allow people to develop it, augment it, improve it (see: “don’t be a futurologist” ...ital/creative commons'''. Release all code as open source. Allow/encourage people to use, develop code without limit.
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  • General systems unit
    How to get people to engage. How to get people be step outside their paradigm and rethink something they might not think
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  • Conway’s Game of Life
    Premature, because people have been running Conway models more or less continuously since 1970. None
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  • Ratings notches
    ...ns and provide [[diverse]] perspectives, right? If only ''that'' were what people in the industry used credit ratings for.
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  • Signing authority
    ...ignatures appended to the document on your counterparty’s behalf belong to people suitably authorised by your counterparty to put them there.
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  • Power structure
    ...Indeed, all power structures start off as spontaneous comings-together of people having a common interest. Even people who ''complain'' about power structures — at least ones who do in an orga
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  • The post truth world
    When events are significantly outside the standard deviation, people will react, pushing their own reaction outside the standard deviation - the ...ey remember events and can watch and assimilate events happening to other people, and more importantly they repeatedly interact. 100 dice rolls are discrete
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  • Template:Bankruptcy procedure
    ...until you have worked out the {{{{{1}}}|Early Termination Amount}}''. For people who want to enforce on {{imcsdprov|Posted Credit Support (IM)}} the moment The trading and risk people need to come up with {{{{{1}}}|Close-out Amount}}s for all outstanding {{{{
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  • Email
    ...ail? This is especially good for filtering meeting requests. Best to keep people guessing whether you will show or not. Those who really care will call you. ...deed cannot be deleted, and their membership is maintained through time by people in relevant roles - folks move around in big organisations. Ensure those em
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  • Swap It Out
    ...ultimately [[swap]]ping hearts, which among young, uncynical and unscarred people such as Mr Bieber and his “beliebers”, are largely [[fungible]], the {{
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  • Lateral quitter
    ...eplacement cost of a lateral quitter}}}}{{C|newsletter draft}}{{quote|“Our people are our most precious resource.” ...ther with one at all — suggests corporations systematically undervalue the people they are losing.
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  • Blockbusters: Why Big Hits and Big Risks are the Future of the Entertainment Business
    ...nds (but never quite gets) to 100%: All other things being equal, the more people see your movie, the greater your profit margin will be. ...ref> and other resurgent business lines: don’t try to be all things to all people; clear out your inventory, figure out what you’re good at and hit that ch
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  • King’s Counsel
    ...sh with litigation — much of it conducted by, on behalf of and in front of people with barely the first idea about the complexities of financial services con ...are still around. If anyone will know how an ISDA is meant to work, these people will.
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  • Brown M&Ms
    ...e numbers” in it — Ed.''] because there was so much equipment, and so many people needed to make it function. For example: “Article 148: There will be fift
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  • Non-overlapping magisteria
    ...and cultural disasters we are encountering at the moment are the result of people confusing their magisteria.
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  • Rule 105
    ...the 5 days before the pricing of the offering). It is designed to prevent people from manipulating the price of secondary offerings by shorting the securiti
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  • Template:Commodity regulation
    ...hable, paint ’em yellow ’n’ pass ’em off as copper, real-world things that people actually need to live, are ''out'' of scope.
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  • Fire drill
    ...cation from panicked people in [[operations|ops]]); gradually it will suck people in from across the organisation ([[legal]], [[litigation]], [[compliance]],
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  • Template:Isda 6(d) summ
    ...years due to vigorous [[Downgrading - waste article|down-skilling]] means people are less fussed about it now.
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  • Get your coat
    There may be an alternative, better, universe out there where these people are properly self-actualising by wiping tables at Starbucks, but the unhapp
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  • Compensation
    ...ber, none are more given to euphemism, and indeed hyperbole, than the good people of [[personnel]] or, as they like to think of themselves, ''[[human capital ...ut that, especially given the lengths the collective goes to find the best people, so many of the ones it winds up with are so ''mediocre''.
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  • Dear Client
    ...the right circumstances: it might be a to-all communication going to 5,000 people updating them about MiFID 2 roll out, and the simple logistics of setting u
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  • Mitigating the agency problem
    Rightly, none of these people can see how their own role is meaningless — seen in its own terms, it is
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  • Bank
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  • Template:Gmsla 11.7 summ
    ...ding Payments}} clause we can only wonder about, if it were not to trip up people like yours truly. So be warned.
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  • Template:Isda 5(a)(vi) summ
    ...'lending money to counterparties who have also borrowed heavily from other people''.
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  • Legaltech roll of honour
    ...altechbros]] he knows about. This comes, at first, from those enthusiastic people at ''Legal Geek'' and their “[https://www.legalgeek.co/startup-map/ start ...r lucre it sought for inclusion. We know some of the owners: they are good people. But — well, diamonds in the muck, and all that.
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  • Disintermediation
    ...ion was, for those at the wrong end of the [[agency problem]] — a class of people generally called “[[client]]s” — a moment of beatific liberation, but ...t it turns out the scarce resource is not supply-side bandwidth — the good people at Amazon Web Services have got our backs on that — but demand-side ''att
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  • Contractual interpretation
    ...g" reflects the common sense proposition that we do not easily accept that people have made linguistic mistakes, particularly in formal documents. On the oth ...s is an over-energetic way to describe the process of interpretation. Many people, including politicians, celebrities and Mrs. Malaprop, mangle meanings and
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  • Informal systems
    The model itself, by its existence, queers the pitch, skews incentives. People optimise for the model, often undermining the model’s original goals — ...[High modernism|high modernists]] are the systems theorists and complexity people, two of whom are featured in the video in the panel. Joe Norman<ref>https:/
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  • Accession
    Nonetheless, the attractions of accession still seems to elude people in the industry whom you might think would know better. For, them the JC ha
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  • David Bowie, Dad’s Army, and financial armageddon
    ...il deposit|customer deposit]]s. Much of its lending is involves lending to people so they can buy houses. ...s on its deposits. Otherwise it will not be in business for long. A lot of people at the bank manage its “market risk” to make sure that happens.
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  • Keep your eye on the ball
    ...ce of commodities is barely changed by the [[metaverse]]. People must eat. People need shelter. The resources of the planet are scarce and growing scarcer. T The problem of putting food on people’s tables and rooves over their heads will not be solved.
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  • Normal distribution
    ...ssian]]” distribution, after the chap who first formulated it, but only by people who are trying to sound clever.</ref> of a series of events, indicates that ...endency, on the time [[Mrs. Pinterman]] shows up. The chance that all 400 people should arrive and try to enter the theatre at the same moment is more or le
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  • Microsoft Word
    Will ''these'' people embrace ChatGPT-3? *It does a lot of things that seem cool but most people will never use or understand (Ferrari: going from 0-100 in 3 seconds, trave
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  • Line manager
    '''You spend more time managing other people''': We take this to be a trivial observation: the contractor at the call-ce ...the further up the chain you go, the more time you spend ''managing other people''. Especially given fat-bird syndrome: the porky tweeters on the upper bran
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  • Template:Depositary
    ...can rehypothecate it. As devoted readers of this site will know<ref>Other people might know this too.</ref>, rehypothecation is a very important part of the
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  • The Essential Deming
    Performance appraisal rewards people who conform to the system; it does not reward attempts to improve the syste
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  • Template:Isda 5(a)(viii) summ
    Your correspondent is not one of those people and has little more to say about mergers, except that what happens to live
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  • Structurer
    {{a|people|[[File:Top gun actor.png|450px|thumb|center|A top gun [[structurer]], yeste
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  • Dispute, controversy, difference or claim
    ...ite out of concern for the personal well-being of those given to provoking people. Like the [[Jolly Contrarian|JC]], who is not above airing his controversia
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  • Ultimate client
    ...wiss financial advisors who are pleased to pitch them “investment ideas” — people who have got ''so much money'' they don’t notice that their advisors reli
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  • Sell-side
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  • Cynical Theories
    ...as [[Theory]] diagnoses about other socio-political power structures: once people have intellectual and economic power, through their organisation, they do n ...ve of, and must be subordinated to, the “lived experience” of marginalised people.
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  • Template:M summ Equity Derivatives Calculation Agent, Determining Party and Hedging Party
    ...is the {{eqderivprov|Determining Party}}. This does seem to surprise some people who ought to know better, partly because {{icds}}, in its usual quest to ca
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  • The Death and Life of Great American Cities
    ...opportunity for development. If the whole place has gentrified, there will people who can’t afford to live there. ...e more we have of it — that the sight of people in the street ''attracts'' people, and does not, as the modernists suppose, repel them — tell us about our
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  • Emergence
    ...mption, but the the pattern that emerges from the aggregate of billions of people's data consumption. ''No one cares about you''. Your habits are probably pe
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  • Molesworth self-adjusting thank-you letter
    ...ways, allowing the business folk to get on with whatever unseemly business people of commerce do, in these straitened times. ...stances you want, respectively, to sustain or resist, before your business people can get busy with it.
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  • Bulltard
    ...ven period is the crisis that will eventually do for it. Especially if the people of that period have no reasonable inkling of what is coming.
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  • Perfection
    But as a people, we have lost our passion for the ineffable. A few years ago, those dour [[
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  • Crack drafting squad
    {{a|people|{{image|text machinery|png|An [[AI]] rendering of the crack drafting squad,
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  • Template:M intro design org chart
    ...an ordinance survey map does about the weather in a given location, or how people will behave if it rains. Being static, they speak to what is ''meant'' to h ...on the org chart, of course — who know the place would fall apart without people like Dan.}}
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  • Template:Counterparts capsule
    ...s is sort out which, of a scrum of identical documents signed by different people, is the “original”. This is doubtless important if you are registering
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  • Template:Extraordinary events capsule
    ...'': Two random ones that don’t brilliantly fit with this theory, and which people tend to disapply — possibly for that exact reason, but they are fairly we
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  • Fifteenth law of worker entropy
    ...d p[ave the way for the ninth law of worker entropy,<ref>“As the number of people involved in negotiating a contract goes up, its brevity, comprehensibility
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  • Bezos memo
    ...o get it right, keeping it as simple and robust as possible. This prevents people from building fiefdoms, constructing critical dependencies on their bespoke
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  • Lake Views: This World and the Universe
    ...on the penultimate page of this collection of essays. “There are plenty of people without religious faith who live exemplary moral lives (as for example, me) ...atheist? If there's no God, what is the special attraction of a land where people are lobbing missiles over your back fence all the time?
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  • Substance and form
    ...on for the front part of the [[Gartner peak inflated expectations curve]]: people are fundamentally mediocre, unimaginative, but very good at glomming onto a ...op-down modernist creation myth that grows ever stronger as there are more people incentivised to perpetuate it. Inward-looking management becomes ever more
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  • Prime broker
    ...lawyers hate the [[Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999]], and why people insist on [[counterparts]] clauses. ...g|hedge fund}}s get off the ground: setting it up, finding offices, hiring people, engaging lawyers, recommending (cough) [[prime broker]]s, and [[capital in
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  • Structured investment vehicle
    This all only works, of course, as long as people remain prepared to buy your commercial paper when it rolls every month. In
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  • Ignore
    ...ualised risk: this is how an insurer makes money. If it provides a million people with fire insurance at £300 per annum and, actuarially, expects five hundr
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  • Information
    ...matically, investing in their author some proprietary rights to stop other people reproducing the creation. It does not apply to all kinds of information - t
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  • Simulation hypothesis
    :''(3) The fraction of all people with our kind of experiences that are living in a simulation is very close ...impossible to try at home, of course — which is, perhaps, why intelligent people like [[Neil deGrasse-Tyson]] who ought to know better — fall for it.
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  • Omega
    ...ut'' [[coronavirus]] may have all the makings of a good [[end of days]] if people don’t get a grip and satisfy themselves they have enough low-calorie soya
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  • Execution date
    ...versight is another’s gainful employment, and hunting down and castigating people for creating undated agreements will provide rich fodder, for years, for ou
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  • Agent
    ...tract, by well-trodden legal theory, depends upon the state of mind of two people, whereas where an agency exists, the necessary parts of that consensus can
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  • Bitcoin
    ...g a troy ounce of gold, exceeds the present value of a troy ounce of gold, people stop mining gold. ...presenting the worth of a given merchant’s assets. It naturally accrued to people according to their existing ''wealth''. There was no gold rush — another
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  • The human touch
    ...ight, or political capital to be bothered correcting the wrong impression. People may have pride in the form: large organisations may prefer portfolio standa
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  • Diversity and inclusion
    ...to create an environment that brings the power of diversity to life; where people with different backgrounds and experiences thrive in both their professiona
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  • Template:Heterogeneity as a bad thing
    “''Homo''geneity is important to bind your people to a common purpose and vision,” they will say. “''Hetero''geneity can
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  • Diversity paradox
    ...s'' that what we want? Historicists might say no?) implies somehow letting people form and protect their own in-groups. ''Exclusivity must be allowed. It can
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  • Template:Opco scene setter
    ...of lived experiences and inclined instead to passive-aggressively knifing people in the back in private.
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  • Service catalog
    ...ave the time of one lazy arse who would rather waste twenty hours of other people’s time rather than one of his”. Yet these activities, and ones like the ...dressed by the enterprise to improve itself”<ref>In other words, by firing people.</ref>
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  • Net promoter score
    ...gregate data spinning off an “NPS” question is considered, by the sorts of people who should know better but don’t, as a good [[proxy]] for forecasting bus
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  • Template:Assignment and assumption capsule
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  • Office entropy
    '''Law 9''': As the number of people involved in a negotiation goes up, its brevity, comprehensibility and utili
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  • Eagle Squad
    ...rd'' of [[modernist]] frippery by which our management overlords can impel people from the back office to keep shunting whatever rock they are assigned to sh
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  • Blockchain
    ...else in the world, a cryptocurrency can only acquire extrinsic value ''by people attaching value to it''. But that means blockchain miners must find someone ...permissionless blockchain ''needs'' bullish speculators to work. It needs people with an unshakeable confidence in an invented currency. This is not a curio
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  • Thirteenth law of worker entropy
    ...ience, skill and hubris required to competently manipulate text, the fewer people can do it and, by ordinary principles of supply and demand, the more they c ...ny commercial moment has ever depended on an NDA, the howlers persist: the people — and [[Machines are fungible|machines]] — engaged to process them need
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  • Mark-to-market
    ...that price.</ref> and the market [[liquid]]<ref>Meaning there are lots of people in the market for that asset at that time</ref> then however estimable your ...ng to value your asset by reference to the prevailing price at which other people are buying and selling assets ''like'' yours — while at the same time ''n
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  • Template:Credit support types capsule
    ...interest, but for practical purposes isn’t. Aside from upsetting your CASS people, it functions practically as if the person holding Collateral at any time i
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  • Brother Maynard drafting
    :AND the LORD did grin and the people did feast upon the lambs and sloths and carp and anchovies and orangutans a
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  • Legal services delivery
    ...ref>Kodak ''invented'' the digital camera. It still killed them.</ref> Ask people who used to make postcards and aerogrammes. The reason the “buzz” has “shifted to delivery” is that the sort of people who “buzz” are in management, or management consulting, and ''they have
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  • Redefinitions
    ...paul-hollywood-i-dont-trust-people-now-im-a-hermit-l0z8jcmd3 I don’t trust people now. I’m a hermit]''”. Paul Hollywood, ''The Times'' Magazine, Saturday
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  • Guide to the legal profession
    ...do and who we all are. We are, in that regard, all the same: we screen our people to make sure [[D&I]] is a fundamental part of their, and therefore our, DNA ...ry error]] the [[Critical theory|critical theorist]]s made: to assume that people want professional guides in order to ''read'' them.
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  • Template:Olympus
    ...s'' “a special African term for a female leopard”. It seems fanciful: most people in that part of the world speak Swahili, and in that language leopardess, w
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  • Template:M intro devil grand unifying theory
    ...ime and capital with them. Let your operations people and their operations people get to know one another. ...''need'' experience; you need [[diversity]]; you need expertise. You need people comfortable with [[doubt]] and without [[certainty]]. Standard tropes and m
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  • Paradigm failure
    ...said, as a defensive strategy, incumbents should surround themselves with people who can exercise on the plan but do ''not'' have the gumption or charisma t
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  • End-to-end principle
    ...complications, intelligence and {{risk|complexity}} at its ''edges''. Let people build whatever structures they like on it — if it is a [[digital commons] One consequence of this design, then, is that people can innovate for this network without any need to coordinate with any netwo
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  • Template:Isda 871(m) amendment summ
    US tax people are cleverer than that and decreed an option delta of more than 80% counts
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  • Template:M intro design protestant and catholic
    ...categories of people: [[administrator]]s — who we define as “that class of people who are not [[Subject matter expert|subject matter experts]], don’t under ...one — and the much-talked-about-seldom-seen ''catholic'' mode — in which people who know what they are doing act immediately and. if need be, ask for permi
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  • The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
    ...an immensely powerful idea. Not only does it undermine the certitude many people have about their own ways of life, it seems to opens the door to all the wa That we might not be able to terrifies a lot of people, especially scientists, and Kuhn gets a lot of the blame for this state of
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  • Third law of worker entropy
    ...of fun but unimportant activities fall into the general bucket of “telling people what to do”.
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  • Template:Isda 5(a)(vii) summ
    ...ile before getting tired, being shouted at by their [[Salespeople|business people]], and moving on to something more important to argue about, like {{{{{1}}}
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  • Panel discussion
    ...ough [[LinkedIn]]’s oily midwifery: the ''[[panel discusser]]''. These are people who spend most of their working lives attending, moderating or speaking on
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  • Burgess Shale
    ...r crust ''actually pricing derivatives'', not conjecturing about how other people do it. But this will not matter: the piece will spread like wildfire around So will begin the hue and cry for something tangible, visible and fixable for people to do, so these grim happenings can be put away forever.
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  • Template:Isda Force Majeure summ
    ...n’t a {{{{{1}}}|Force Majeure}} proper in the preprinted 1992 doesn’t mean people don’t borrow the concept from the 2002 — which has been around for, you
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  • Everyone is fighting a battle you know nothing about
    {{image|Okay|png|}}{{image|Okay 2|jpg|It’s okay to judge people who lie down for meetings.}}}}{{quote| If only people would ''belt up'' about their goddamn personal problems, every now and then
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  • Hedge Position Adjustments - Equity Derivatives Provision
    ...little pure risk being run here: this one is far enough down the tail that people tend not to die in a ditch about it on either side of the argument.
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  • Horizontal and vertical escalations
    ...in any case the whole point of juniorisation is to get rid of ''trained'' people — [[subject matter expert]]<nowiki/>s — and have the process carried ou
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  • Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
    ...al truth of investing that anyone could use, useful precisely because most people think they know best:
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  • And, as the case may be, or
    ...ession couldn’t get any worse than the lily-livered “[[and/or]]”, the good people of the {{eccds}} say “hold my beer, wine and, as the case may be, or, oth
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  • Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder
    It is better to have lots of people hating your idea but a few very loyal supporters than everyone being lukewa ...y Ford: people don't know what they want until you give them it. Don't ask people what they want. <br>
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  • Template:M intro work jobsworthism
    ...ty, and cares less about outliers, edge cases and odd-bods (sorry, all you people at the margins, you are just not worth our lazy while).
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  • The Dappled World – A Study of the Boundaries of Science
    ...that this book is beyond my grasp and almost certainly wasn’t targeted at people like me, so those with the requisite background should disregard my vote an
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  • Murder your darlings
    *''Avoid [[definitions]]''. Mostly, people can figure out what you mean without doubt from the context. Only use defin
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  • World peace
    ...ets to decide, and what’s to stop ''them'' tilting the scales, and what of people who legitimately disagree?”
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  • Thinking in Systems
    ...ibing as it does basically liberal approach — small “l” liberal, that is — people are going to do what they do, and banning them isn’t going to work: bette
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  • Template:M intro negotiation notification of default
    ...your loss of licence. A third-party agency exists exactly to confirm, for people like me, whether you have one or not. But we can imagine other such “obli
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  • Template:Notification of default paradox
    ...your loss of licence. A third-party agency exists exactly to confirm, for people like me, whether you have one or not. But we can imagine other such “obli
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  • Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974
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  • Utopia
    ...’s coming to me is swamped by the happy thoughts that so many other odious people are going to get what's coming to them. *Educated people get to be ruling officials and priests and they get the best food.
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  • Inhouse counsel
    {{a|people|{{image|legal eagle|png|Know me by this name: EAGLE NINJA.}}}}{{d|Inhouse c
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  • Candle problem
    ...any influence is listening to them''. The reason for that is because ''the people with influence are all on the phone to their Aston Martin dealers''.
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  • Asset-backed security
    Different things to different people. In the Eastern wilds on the old side of the Atlantic, bascially any repack
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