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A Credit Default Swap Was Confusing Mainly Because It Wasn't Really A Swap At All. It Was An Insurance Policy, Typically On A Corporate Bond, With Semiannual Premium Payments And A Fixed Term.

Baseball Is This Intense Subculture That Actually Doesn't Speak Very Much For The Larger Culture.

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You Can Anchor The Mind Into Answering A Question A Certain Way By Giving Them A Totally Unrelated Piece Of Information Dropped Before.