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Deconstructing Drivel on Derivatives

If you were to draw a thread through the business articles in last week’s New Yorker, you would think that business is full of toy-loving, outsider psychopaths who dabble in deconstructionism.
That last point about deconstructionism I find offensive.  (The rest is probably true.)
In the article likening derivatives to deconstructionism, Lanchester doesn’t do enough to differentiate [...]

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Nervous much?

I walked into my new job knowing that the company I was working for had just let go of 20% of its workforce.  Then the market did this:
However, none of this worries me too much.  The way I figure it, I should hopefully have at least a year of employment guaranteed, maybe less.
Yet, now that [...]

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