True and people get big mad when anyone notices

They’ve been available since the 90s but it was always a pretty niche market and now it’s like ~$25bn; they pop up in quant funds sometimes, insurance linked strategies, carbon trading etc

I think this is one of the ones I lost when Institutional Investor purged its archive because it’s not coming up on the search but this will give you a breakdown on how they can be used

I think it’s clear that they are pissed that disinformation as a core strategy isn’t working as well for them and now they are pivoting to just take all the phones away this came up with that Obama speechwriter last week as well

I do find it kind of fascinating that they use weather here - I wrote a story about some very quiet weather derivatives traders a while ago that use them to offset stuff like bad weather on crops or vineyards and now it’s going binary and mainstream

hey now doorknobs have a function

I feel like people get really hung up on these accommodations but they are really last mile helpers - they aren't going to make up for people who don't know what they are doing at all on the test - speed is rarely a determining factor

Good cast overall actually but he does carry it in parts

He’s kind of cooking there calling the White House press corps intelligent lunatics

Maybe a hologram of a biblically accurate Gabriel with a horn and a copy of the AP Wire

With the smile he looks like someone’s Balkan aunt

the guy more americans ought to know about is justinian II (got overthrown, got his nose cut off, sent into exile, returned w/an army of his steppe barbarian in-laws, snuck back into the capital through the sewers, retook the throne, had a prosthetic gold nose made for himself). 100% approval rating

You can see this two step coming a mile away right like let’s say the Ds get power back with the existing Starmer style coalition & suddenly the surveillance gets enshrined forever & the cost of doing anything else restoration wise is too high & we have to start making “tough choices”

Centrists are absolutely fine letting things degrade or letting conservatives cut because then they can say the cost of restoration is too high & we are all but hapless victims of a process they actively supported all the way through it’s a straightforward rug pull be it labour or dems