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...s Jennifer Hughes pointed out to me, that the same government-backed securities can be accounted for as held to maturity at the same time as they count as high-quality liquid assets for the purposes of calculating...
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...In normal times, it would seem bizarre to sit at lunch in midtown Manhattan calculating the precise probability of nuclear destruction with a philosopher. But these are not normal times....
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...Buying what look like cheap stocks and waiting for them to go up without correctly calculating the odds of the arrival of a private equity bid or similar catalyst can present a material career risk....
...So are you really calculating how much I would have got if, you know, we’d still have gone ahead with indexation? I don’t think you do that. But what do people notice?...
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