Why AI Will Never Replace Traders
The Model Has Never Seen a War Start on a Tuesday Morning By R Tamara de Silva The promise that a quantitative model can…
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Insider Trading on Polymarket: The First Criminal Case, and the Bigger Ones Still Anonymous
For fifteen years, there has been a legal framework in the United States for criminally prosecuting insider trading in commodities and derivatives markets. It…
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What Popes Do
On the letter from Minab, and why grieving Iranian parents wrote to an American pope by R Tamara de Silva There is a line…
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Another Hormuz Trade, Another $760 Million Question: The Insider Trading Pattern in Oil Futures
On Friday, someone bet about $760 million that oil prices would fall. Twenty minutes later, Iran’s foreign minister announced that the Strait of Hormuz…
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Is the Oil Market Being Jawboned? The Story the Spot/Futures Spread May Be Trying to Tell
When governments talk, markets move. The question worth asking right now is whether the oil futures market is being deliberately talked down to prop…
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When Saying No Becomes a National Security Threat: The Anthropic Injunction and What It Means for Free Speech
When Saying No Becomes a National Security Threat: The Anthropic Injunction and What It Means for Free Speech The question at the center of…
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DOGE in Court: What the Headlines Missed
On January 20, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order creating the Department of Government Efficiency. DOGE, as it became known, was not a…
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The Pentagon Blinked: What Last Friday’s Ruling Means for a Free Press
March 21, 2026 For decades, reporters from major news organizations covered the United States military from inside the Pentagon using press credentials called Pentagon…
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A Buddhist Reflection on Love, Loss, and Euthanasia
To Stay in the Room: What Buddhism Taught Me About Euthanasia and Love Euthanasia is not a Buddhist practice. While the term and…
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The Remarkable Pigeon: From War Heroes to Detecting Breast Cancer
The Remarkable Pigeon: From War Heroes to Detecting Breast Cancer R Tamara de Silva In the midst of urban landscapes, pigeons often blend…
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