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Terminated: Volatility Products Blow Up

5 Rules to Help Avoid Investing Disaster It’s actually not that hard. Bloomberg, February 8, 2018. A basic rule of life is to avoid being a guinea pig in other people’s experiments. This is an inviolable rule of technology: consumers should always leave 1.0 of anything to the early adopters. All car fanatics know that any…

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Pullbacks Are Healthy. . .

click for ginormous graphic Source: Deutsche Bank Securities Torsten Sløk always brings the good stuff: “After a stellar 2017 and an even stronger January, risk assets have undergone a sharp pullback in the last week. Initially triggered by higher rates as markets repriced inflation expectations higher, the episode evolved into a technical spout of…

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10 Thursday AM Reads

My Olympic morning train reads: • $XIV Volpocalypse – A Sea of Disinformation and Misunderstanding (Kid Dynamite) • An Ode to the Video Store Chain, on the Occasion of Blockbuster’s Demise (Texas Monthly) • The Obscure History—and Future—of the Plastic Bag (Bloomberg) • The Best Books on Neuroscience: a reading list for students considering it as a career (Five Books)…

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