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…ducts) quite popular and profitable in recent years. The net short position on VIX futures has progressively climbed to new highs over the last couple of years. Another phenomenon was the rise of “volatility control” investment strategies, supposedly favored by many hedge funds a...

…oreign-policy credentials: As president, Obama has taken on a number of major foreign-policy initiatives, including a renewed troop surge in Afghanistan, the negotiation of the New START nuclear arms reduction treaty with Russia, the NATO intervention in Libya, the withdrawal fro...

…pted to modify China’s influence over Cambodia and Laos, although to little effect. Japan has a close relationship with New Delhi that involves not simply trade but also security. Japan and India recently unveiled the Asia-Africa Growth Corridor as a way to compete with Chinese i...

…John Coltrane and McCoy Tyner’s endless, single chord, tenor/piano dialogues exemplify the bifurcation to hallucinatory new stuff arising spontaneously from the experience of unchanging repetition. Constant repetition of the conditioned (expected) stimulus drove Pavlov’s dogs, es...

…, my Foreign Minister, told me he would not be joining me at Camp David. He wasn’t resigning, at least not yet. But he knew that the final decisions at the summit would be mine, he feared it would fail, and didn’t want to share in the consequences. None of this meant I wasn’t go...

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…lready supports under specified conditions. Or Iran could suspend 20-percent enrichment in exchange for a suspension of new sanctions. But Iran is unlikely to accept even such small steps unless it felt that additional moves would win additional explicit concessions. Beyond that...

… 0.32 vol points to 10.38, and SPX 1m ATM implied vol declined 0.3 vol points to 7.6%. Chart 13: The Nasdaq has set a new record for consecutive days without a 5% peak-to-trough drawdown 160 «2 136 140 120 100 Bo 80 60 40 Be 20 SSeS 0 16-Jun-17 14-Jul-86 27-Feb-97 21-Ju...

… in london On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 9:15 PM, Sultan Bin Sulayem wrote: * 11 Places With a Worse Economy Than USA By Rick Newman — Fri Jul 10, 11:50 am ET *How to tell when a real recovery begins.? By Rick Newman *Obama says stimulus plan to kick in later this year. Reuters 11 Plac...

…went to plan. That, along with some frantic diplomatic activity and a healthy common sense on all sides, ensured that a new war with Egypt was averted — at least for a further half- dozen years, until 1967. By then, the lesson of Rotem would be learned: our need to find a realiab...

…m a coke, went downstairs to make dinner. Half an hour later she went upstairs to check on him. He had died. we got the news at 9pm on a phone call from someone we hadn’t talked to in 20 years" “Jonathan Matson has died” was impossible to process. Katinka is still was distraught...

…him several more times, and we brought in Gesher as our first “One Israel” partner. The second to join us, early in the new year, was a small religious party called Meimad, inspired by an openly pro-peace Orthodox rabbi named Yehuda Amital and including a former Chief Rabbi of No...

…a line of Xplorer Smart GPS shoes at the World Shoe Association (WSA) in Las Vegas on February 1 which offer a range of new opportunities. Xplorer shoes incorporate a small and robust GPS tracking device which hooks up with GTXC's internet user portal to offer a very compelling...

…uch diagnoses were probably best left to the professionals. I couldn’t pretend, however, that emotional engagement with new acquaintances, even with people I knew and liked but were not close friends, was something that came naturally. And it is also true that from my first exper...

… and Japan’s have moved down. When | was in Europe last week, businessmen there were concerned with what they saw as a new level of U.S. dominance in everything from technology to entertainment to finance. Consider America’s big banks. They were at the epicenter of the financial...