The passage from Empire of Illusion by Chris Hedges explains how “the most essential skill in political theater and a consumer is artifice.” In political theater and a consumer‚ being artifice means to deceive or trick someone for your own benefit. Moreover‚ he argues that an image-based culture communicates through narratives‚ pictures‚ and pseudo-drama and those who don’t are ignored. Being artifice is technically not the greatest thing you can do‚ but it works well with many leaders out there
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Hedge Fund Strategy - Equity Long-Short An equity long-short strategy is an investing strategy‚ used primarily by hedge funds‚ that involves taking long positions in stocks that are expected to increase in value and short positions in stocks that are expected to decrease in value. You may know that taking a long position in a stock simply means buying it: If the stock increases in value‚ you will make money. On the other hand‚ taking a short position in a stock means borrowing a stock you don’t
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involved in everyone’s daily life‚ and it is very hard to imagine life without the use of it for many. Cavemen did not require money for survival‚ nor did they come up with the idea for it. On Course Hero‚ a document explains why cavemen didn’t need money to survive‚ “Cavemen did not need money because they were all producers of their own good‚ hunted their own food and made their own clothes.” Cavemen didn’t need money to survive and probably never thought of needing such a thing because they lived
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The Other Side of the Hedge After reading the first few paragraphs‚ The Other Side of the Hedge‚ by E. M. Forster‚ seems to be nothing more than a story about a man walking down a long road. The narrator’s decision to go through the hedge transforms the story into an allegory that is full of symbols representing Forster’s view of the journey of life. The author develops the allegory through the use of several different symbols including the long road‚ the hedge and the water. The
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of the Hedge E.M. Forster The Other Side of the Hedge is a powerfully symbolic essay‚ sometimes allegorical while other times more direct. Forster invokes images of nature and its stages throughout the tale. Images such as the "brown crackling hedges" and "hillsclean‚ bare buttresses‚ with beech trees in their folds." Forster pairs his imagery of nature against "objects" like the narrator’s pedometer that seem useless and actually stop functioning after the journey through the hedge. The essay
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Chris Hedges is a foreign war correspondent for fifteen years and has received the 2002 Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism. As a profound and credible journalist‚ he has survived ambushes in Central America‚ imprisonment in Sudan‚ and a beating by Saudi military police. Throughout this book he helps his readers understand that war is in fact a seduction to not only to those on the front line‚ but society as a whole‚ destroying everything in it’s path and takes no mercy
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Hedge Funds Class London February 2007 February 9‚ 2007 SECTION 1 Class Agenda Agenda ♦ 9:00 - 10:30 ♦ 10:30 - 10:45 ♦ 10:45 - 12:15 ♦ 12:15 - 1:30 ♦ 1:30 - 2:15 ♦ 2:15 – 3:00 ♦ 3:00 - 3:15 ♦ 3:15 - 4:00 ♦ 4:00 - 4:45 ♦ 4:45 - 5:00 Hedge Fund Basics Coffee Break Basics Continued Lunch Continued Hedge Fund Services Coffee Break Fund of Funds Stuart Trueman Joe Troccolo Tamera Hodges Joe Troccolo Joe Troccolo Hedge Funds & Corp Finance Laurent Charbonnier Wrap-up / Optional Exam
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Chapter 11 balance sheet hedge. Reducing foreign exchange (FX) exposure by varying the mix of a firm’s foreign currency assets and liabilities. Economic exposure. The effect of FX rate changes on a firm’s future costs and revenues. Exposure management. Structuring a company’s affairs to minimize the adverse effects of exchange rate changes on earnings. net exposed asset position. An excess of exposed assets over exposed liabilities (also called a positive exposure). net exposed liability position
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Hedge Fund Strategies Problem Set: Backtesting the Carry Trade (Macro Strategies) Prof. Andrea Frazzini In this problem set‚ you backtest the currency carry trade using the data provided in the accompanying Excel spreadsheet. You can do the problem set using Excel or any other program of your choice. Please answer in the space provided (no more than three pages for questions 1-6). 1. For each month of the sample‚ rank the countries based on their interest rate (hint: Excel has a function
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