From its peak of 799,541 contracts on 15 January open interest fell to 553,030 on 23 March. Any attempt to produce a new fiat money after the existing one has failed will also fail – rapidly. That being the case, in this context a price move for gold above $2000 Read more…
Are Airlines About To Get New Social Distancing Seats. This Startup Thinks So Tyler Durden Sat, 08/08/2020 – 08:45 A startup company by the name Zephyr Aerospace has designed a “social distancing compliant seat for airlines.” The company launched a funding round on Republic Note, offering accredited investors under Rule 506(c) to buy into the dream Read more…
From left to right: Professor Henning Bundgaard, Tamara van Ark, Anders Tegnell | Composite image by FEE (Rigshospitalet, Wikimedia Commons) They responded by noting there is little conclusive evidence that face masks are an effective way to limit the spread of respiratory viruses. Dutch public health officials recently explained why Read more…
Feds Uncover “Most Sophisticated Tunnel In US History” Along Southern Border Tyler Durden Sat, 08/08/2020 – 07:35 Special agents with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) have uncovered an incomplete drug smuggling tunnel stretching from Arizona to Mexico, reported AZ Family. Agents are calling the tunnel “the most sophisticated [drug] tunnel in US history” after Read more…
In this blog, we look at the impact of recent policy measures on market implied uncertainty, based on option prices, and introduce new volatility indices, which measure implied volatility in the European government bond futures market. Such uncertainty suggests that the market experienced a tail risk event in March (Figure Read more…
These suggested, even at this point, that the US demand for unconditional surrender might well be the only serious obstacle to peace. Truman secretly gave the orders on July 25, 1945, that the bombs would be dropped in August while he was to be en route back to America. If Read more…
Emirates file image The desperate measure – and no doubt costly in terms of the airline's insurance premiums – comes as Emirates says it expects to cut as many as 9,000 jobs in the coming weeks. Billing itself as “the first airline in the world to offer free, global cover for COVID-19 Read more…
These days, it's hard for anyone to argue that prepping is a “silly idea” for “kooky conspiracy theorists”. I thought this was rather bizarre; I didn't expect hundreds of people to show up to the club meeting, maybe a couple dozen at most. I was perfectly ready to refuse removal Read more…
This applies to Mike Pompeo, Donald Trump and their successors,” Mousavi added. Indeed in perhaps one of the greatest symbols or representations of the contradictions and absurdity inherent in US foreign policy of the past few decades, and a supreme irony that can't be emphasized enough: the new US envoy to Read more…
Things take a step closer to home by encouraging the use of “student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.” We've had not a little experience with riots and protests lately, many of which have been heavily attended by young people. Are they Read more…