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…0 index return, dy 10 is the 10-year US bond yield change, r MXN – r USD is the two-year swap rate differential (lagged one period), RCP is RealClearPolitics polling average for Donald Trump, and e is an error term. The commodity currency basket consists of BRL, CLP, COP, CAD, NO...

…ke no sense and a real test that tests to see whether you can drive. Schools typically don’t have the real test at all, one that tests to see whether you actually can do something, so the DMV at least is smarter than the school system. But the real issue is something else entire...

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…but it needs to be taught as part of the process of diagnosis. If you have a goal (understanding what is broken or has gone awry is a very typical goal), then it is much easier to acquire information that helps in the pursuit of that goal than it is to acquire that same informati...

…of interests, of responsibility and common fate”. As Premier Li Keqiang has often said, “today, no nation can succeed alone”. Therefore we must invent international engaging projects. This perspective is definitely pacifist. And by serving development and prosperity, it serves pe...

floored me," she said. "But I'm not completely surprised. Feminism has always been one of those movements that eats its young. That's one reason I never identified with it. I think there are a lot of people my age who started out living feminist lives, who now wouldn't be caught...

…er been to college but have been to high school? These are situa- tions that happen to people. They usually assume that one is like the other. While this assumption may not work out all that well, it is the best a scriptless person can do in the situation. A teacher, therefore,...

… for such operations. The mechanism is fairly simple: dirt is obtained from wherever it can be found to discredit an opponent. It is then "leaked," usually either anonymously or on background, to targeted media channels. What makes the 2016 campaign particularly interesting from...

… USD/JPY has recently tracked real yield spread closely (Chart 1), and the pair is gradually producing higher carry as monetary policy is diverging between the US and Japan (Chart 2). In Japan, fiscal easing is also a possibility in light of reduced odds of TPP implementation and...

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…agination - something informed by conscience, carved by duty. Kant called it "the inner command", the ethical construct one creates to guide one from within. But we need tools to mine good intentions: inspirations, ones which await the creative spark, the source of all enlargemen...

…w and the chance to get away from the rotting smell of old politics, surely an instinct many of us feel now.!24 This is one reason it’s wrong to look at the world and consider it filled merely with random events, with Black Swans. In fact, regularities and patterns appear many pl...

…ped off the bus, I felt like baby Simba when he's lifted into the air in "The Lion King" and all the animals sing. Everyone was affectionate; everyone hugged; no was called "gay" for doing anything that wasn't masculine. (My insecurity about this had shamefully kept me from doing...

…er.' The immediate result of this confluence of extraordinary circumstances is an onslaught of civil lawsuits, all save one brought by the First Assistant's former boutique law firm in Miami. The facts in this case all revolve around the classic state crime of solicitation of pro...

designs and provides at least one case of a provably beneficial system in the sense introduced above. The overall approach resembles mechanism-design problems in economics, wherein one incentivizes other agents to behave in ways beneficial to the designer. The key difference here...