What Is Carry Trading? – Warrior Trading

  There’s a concept in trading known as “carry trading,” which is basically how much the asset pays (or costs) you to own it, aside from price appreciation (although there are some exceptions which we’ll explore in this article).  A bond, for example, has positive carry in the form of regular interest payments. On the… Continue reading What Is Carry Trading? – Warrior Trading

Detailed Footage Finally Reveals What Triggers Lightning

So Dwyer and his team turned to the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR), a network of thousands of small radio telescopes mostly in the Netherlands. LOFAR usually gazes at distant galaxies and exploding stars. But according to Dwyer, “it just so happens to work really well for measuring lightning, too.” When thunderstorms roll overhead, there’s little… Continue reading Detailed Footage Finally Reveals What Triggers Lightning

North Korea’s Nuclear Arsenal and Prospects for Regional Peace

Nuclear talks between the United States and North Korea have hovered at a standstill since 2019, when then-President Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un walked away from the negotiating table in Hanoi with a “no-deal.” To date, there has been no contact between negotiators in Washington and Pyongyang aimed at resuscitating talks over the Kim regime’s… Continue reading North Korea’s Nuclear Arsenal and Prospects for Regional Peace

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As Markets Swing Wildly Seeking The Fed Put, Morgan Stanley Has Some Bad News

With markets swinging around like yoyos spun by drunken monkeys ever since the bizarro ramp following Powell’s uberhawkish presser, which one day later – when humans finally took over trading from the algos – transformed into an even more furious selloff, investors have coalesced around just one question: how low do stocks have to fall… Continue reading As Markets Swing Wildly Seeking The Fed Put, Morgan Stanley Has Some Bad News

Biden’s Southeast Asia Policy Still Has Much to Prove

As the Biden administration’s first year comes to a close, how is the United States faring in Southeast Asia, a region critical to winning the strategic competition against China in the Indo-Pacific? The returns are mixed, and there are worrying trends. Despite one year of honing an Indo-Pacific strategy, Washington is still no closer to… Continue reading Biden’s Southeast Asia Policy Still Has Much to Prove

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Starbucks Union Drive Spreads To Massachusetts & Arizona

Authored by Brett Wilkins via Common Dreams, Inspired by the successful unionization of workers at two Buffalo, New York Starbucks stores last week, employees at a pair of the chain’s Boston-area locations—one in the city’s Allston neighborhood and the other in Brookline—requested votes this week to join the Workers United union. In a letter to company CEO Kevin… Continue reading Starbucks Union Drive Spreads To Massachusetts & Arizona

Vanishing in Plain Sight – SpiritualDirection.com

Planes are disappearing from the skies, stocks are disappearing from the shelves, and workers are disappearing from their jobs.  It is happening all around us. Wherefore vanish these, purgatorial shadows? It happened to me just days ago.  I noticed that I vanished.  It began one quiet afternoon during a discussion with my supervisor at the… Continue reading Vanishing in Plain Sight – SpiritualDirection.com

We Discovered a Rogues’ Gallery of Monster-Sized Gas Giants – Facts So Romantic

It doesn’t feel right to see a toddler walking down the street by themselves. Toddlers don’t just go rogue, and if they do they are quickly chased down by a parent or grandparent or teacher and brought back where they belong. Most planets are like toddlers: They follow a well-behaved orbit around a star. It… Continue reading We Discovered a Rogues’ Gallery of Monster-Sized Gas Giants – Facts So Romantic