Bias Before Knowledge of History: Wall Street’s War Dividend
Elliott Management, Paul Singer’s $80 billion hedge fund, told its investors this week that the US-Israeli war on Iran is comparable to the Allied…
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Financial Markets
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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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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OpenAI: The Gamechanger in Decentralizing AI and Empowering Humanity
OpenAI: The Gamechanger in Decentralizing AI and Empowering Humanity R Tamara de Silva Think of FANG stocks, sources of news, social media and media…
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What Charlie Munger Gets Right About Crypto – And What He Doesn’t
What Charlie Munger Gets Right About Crypto- And What He Doesn’t R Tamara de Silva In an op-ed in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, the…
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Cryptocurrency Regulation Post FTX
Cryptocurrency Regulation Post FTX R Tamara de Silva The fall of the FTX Exchange and its affiliate Alameda Research from having a valuation of…
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Biden’s Appointment of Gary Gensler and the Nine-Year Anniversary of MF Global
Gary Gensler, the former chairman of the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), from May 26, 2009, to January 3, 2014 was selected…
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The Role of No-Knock Warrants in Killing Breonna Taylor
The grand jury’s decision yesterday in the murder of 26 year old Breonna Taylor exposes some of the many problems with our criminal…
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