Its fascinating watching the interplay of psychology and macro play out. Like you said typically financial regulation is deadly boring. And...

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/fdic-not-considering-blanket-insurance-190305152.html "U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Wednesday that...

Timely update C. Shar and I committed to no steep alpine stuff this year early in the season .... period. Live to ski another season

For Mustonen and other finance reg dorks ...

Cuban' company was broadcast.com bought by YHOO. He got YHOO shares but was locked up. His contract allowed him to hedge his YHOO position and he...

Bought these off MikeD about that same time then gave them to my brother. He uses them a lot skiing with the kids as they're such an easy to ski...

One example. We would lend a company a sum of money (a bond so to speak) with interest rates, payment requirements. The loan had a conversion...

Fair point. My brother was an actuary and my friend's also one but both in pension funds. I may very well be out of touch

Bear with me as I know actuaries and it's intensely boring! Actuarial science's biggest dependency is lifespan. There's other dependencies in...

I would say that in my time in the industry if I came in with an idea to originate a deal or take a position and I didn't have a clear plan for...

Aye that is the ugly truth and the nature of the beast hence the existence of the Yellen, JPow and the fed put in buttressing the system.

Ditto the heat for mark to mark unrealized losses. In more halcyon times ( ie a month ago), many FIs carried unrealized gains without waving pom...

I thought I posted an answer but one of the most recent forum glitches killed it. Basically what you said above but along these lines (bullet...

I dunno. How were they dumb? Their financials show they were well run. They bought conservative things ; treasuries etc and made loans ( as they...

Your question "Anyone use a dynafit crampons without the centering clip?" I did. The crampon slipped. It cracked

I did and cracked a 110mm crampon. I found someone who'd done the same thing and gave them my cracked crampon so he had a pair. I bet you can find...

Yeah my WAL long gains offsetting FRC losses (with FRC as a yolo bet) not working well for me. The ass pain is getting a bit much.

I drive them at the cuff but am light so even with a pack (75kgs body weight) don't wear stuff out that much so take that fwiw. Will check back...

Touring. Backland is better as it has more ROM. Shows up more on flat skinning as opposed to uphills but its there Skiing. ZGTP is better but...

Very general observations on toebox, instep, heel hold from most roomy to least roomy comparing the boots i currently have. All stock liners...

It goes back further than Powell and Yellen. The Fed could have ( and should have) been gradually, slowly been raising interest rates from say 2012...

Wilcox. Do you mean the Backland or HawX?

I've skied both. 4 days in 26.5 Ultra XTD with Boa and 6 days in the 26.5 Backland XTD so far. Elected to test the Backland...I feel the...

Backland XTD fits heels and insteps approx the same as Hawx Ultra but has a wider toebox

It was a buy off FB Marketplace. Just one set. Did manage to get the baskets and straps off without wrecking anything.!

Figured out the locking. Thanks! Could any of you use the straps? If anyone wants I'll try to take them off and mail them.

Thanks! Yup. Trying to remove the tips and baskets and will get out a heat gun. Also dumb question as I've not owned a pair. How do you remove...

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