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TV Will Tear Us Apart: The Future of Political Polarization in American Media
Filed to: 1960sFiled to: 1960s
Imagine a world where the only media you consume serves to reinforce your particular set of steadfast political beliefs. Sounds like a pretty far-out dystopia, right? Well, in 1969, Internet pioneer Paul Baran predicted just that.
In a paper titled "On the Impact of the New Communications Media Upon Social Values," Baran (who passed away in 2011) looked at how Americans might be affected by the media landscape of tomorrow. The paper examined everything from the role of media technology in the classroom to the social effects of the portable telephone — a device not yet in existence that he predicted as having the potential to disrupt our lives immensely with unwanted calls at inopportune times.
Perhaps most interestingly, Baran also anticipated the political polarization of American media; the kind of polarization that media scholars here in the 21st century are desperately trying to better understand.
Baran understood that with an increasing number of channels on which to deliver information, there would be more and more preaching to the choir, as it were. Which is to say, that when people of the future find a newspaper or TV network or blog (which obviously wasn't a thing yet) that perfectly fits their ideology and continuously tells them that their beliefs are correct, Americans will see little reason to communicate meaningfully with others who don't share those beliefs.
Baran saw the media's role as a unifying force that contributed to national cohesion; a shared identity and sense of purpose. With more specialized channels at their disposal (political or otherwise) then Americans would have very little overlap in the messages they received. This, Baran believed, would lead to political instability and increased "confrontation" on the occasions when disparate voices would actually communicate with each other.
Baran wrote in 1969:
A New Difficulty in Achieving National Cohesion.
A stable national government requires a measure of cohesion of the ruled. Such cohesion can be derived from an implicit mutual agreement on goals and direction — or even on the processes of determining goals and direction. With the diversity of information channels available, there is a growing ease of creating groups having access to distinctly differing models of reality, without overlap.
For example, nearly every ideological group, from the student underground to the John Birchers, now has its own newspapers. Imagine a world in which there is a sufficient number of TV channels to keep each group, and in particular the less literate and tolerant members of the groups, wholly occupied? Will members of such groups ever again be able to talk meaningfully to one another? Will they ever obtain at least some information through the same filters so that their images of reality will overlap to some degree? Are we in danger of creating by electrical communications such diversity within society as to remove the commonness of experience necessary for human communication, political stability, and, indeed, nationhood itself? Must "confrontation" increasingly be used for human communication?
National political diversity requires good will and intelligence to work comfortably. The new visual media are not an unmixed blessing. This new diversity causes one to hope that the good will and intelligence of the nation is sufficiently broad-based to allow it to withstand the increasing communication pressures of the future. The splintering of mass media in the United States over the past half a century has undoubtedly led to the stark "differing models of reality" that Baran describes. The true believers of any ideology will tow the party line and draw strength from their particular team's media outlets. But the evidence remains inconclusive when it comes to the average American. Simply put, there's not a lot of evidence that people who aren't already highly engaged politically will be influenced by partisan media sources to become more radical or reactionary as the case may be.
Writing in the Annual Review of Political Science this year, Markus Prior explains, "Ideologically one-sided news exposure may be largely confined to small, but highly involved and influential segment of the population." However, "there is not firm evidence that partisan media are making ordinary Americans more partisan."
Stepping back and looking at ourselves from the perspective of a future historian, it's easy to argue that we could still be in the early days of highly-polarized mass media. The loosening and eventual elimination of the FCC's fairness doctrine in the 1980s saw the rise of talk radio hosts unhindered by the need to give opposing viewpoints equal airtime. The rise of the web in the mid-1990s then delivered even more channels for political voices to deliver their messages through the young Internet. User-generated online video saw its rise with the birth of YouTube in the mid-2000s allowing for the dissemination of visual media without many of the regulations politicians and content creators must normally adhere to when broadcasting over the public airwaves. The rise of social media in this decade has seen everyone from your grandmother to hate groups being given a platform to air their grievances. And tomorrow, who knows?
Just how much more polarized our nation's mainstream political voices can become remains to be seen. But it may be safe to say that when it comes to a lack of message overlap and increased political diversity in new forms of media, Paul Baran's 1969 predictions have long since become a reality.
This post originally appeared at Smithsonian.com.

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Following San Pedro's most recent fire in the Boca del Rio on August 4th, which left more than 100 persons homeless, Belize Telemedia Limited (BTL) has announced that they will be donating two fire trucks to the island. The announcement was made on Wednesday, August 29th by BTL's Chief Executive Officer Rochus Schreiber, who confirmed to the media that the trucks have already been identified and are expected to be delivered to San Pedro before Christmas.
Rochus Schreiber
In the wake of the Boca del Rio fire, Ted Smith from National Fire Service had commented that they were working with BTL to acquire the fire trucks. He stated that BTL had approached them and they were discussing the possibility to acquire the trucks. He said the current units at the fire station on the island are very old and should have been replaced a long time ago. He hopes that these new trucks will better equip the island's fire department.
Schreiber indicated that San Pedro is not just one of the most important areas in the country, but it was also the first municipality where they installed their new fast-speed fiber network internet service-Diginet. He said that after the fire on June 12th at the island's southern Escalante sub-division, where four residents perished, they approached the local authorities on the island and Government. "Between the Mayor of San Pedro and the Fire Department, they identified their most urgent needs," said Schreiber. "Then together, we worked out on how we could help them to find those trucks, how to find the financing for those trucks and deliver them as quickly as possible to San Pedro," Schreiber said that BTL is ready to pay for the trucks as soon as they are ready to be shipped to Belize.
The fire in June destroyed two houses and claimed the lives of four members of the Bacab and Nuñez family. The unprecedented tragedy started in a two-story building where 30-year-old Clara Bacab Nuñez and her son 14-year-old Allan Nuñez, daughter 6-year-old Mia Nuñez and niece 16-year-old Lidia Chelin Catzim Bacab were trapped in the inferno, while her husband David Nuñez and older son 16-year-old Samir Nuñez were able to get out badly injured. A tenant living on the ground floor, Tracy Cruz, managed to escape with her two young children through the bathroom window.
The blaze at Boca del Rio did not claim any lives, but did destroy ten homes and lasted over three hours before it could be contained. Even though water almost surrounds the area, the fire department was unable to prevent the inferno from destroying everything in its path. The fire is still under investigation, as arson has been declared as the cause of the blaze. No one has been arrested as yet.
The donation of the trucks by BTL is expected to boost the level of response from the island fire personnel. The fire department is also expected to receive water pumps before the end of the year from Government.
A delivery date for these has not yet been established.
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A West Reading man was discovered dead by his parents after taking a cocktail of prescription and non-prescription drugs. Dominic Wilkinson, 41, of Rowe Court, died on Sunday, September 15, last year.
An inquest in Newbury Town Hall on Wednesday, heard Mr Wilkinson had suffered a suspected fall in Castle Street at about 1.30am the day he died. Paramedics attended and said Mr Wilkinson admitted drinking but said he had not taken any drugs.
After an initial examination of his head for injuries – which was clear apart from a cut above his lip – Mr Wilkinson managed to get himself off the ground and said he did not want any further medical help.
As this was happening, Mr Wilkinson's phone rang – his mother Angela was calling after seeing her son with the paramedics from a taxi.
She met them and took him to her house in Hugh Fraser Drive, Tilehurst, where he had to be carried to bed.
Mrs Wilkinson explained he deteriorated in the taxi but she thought it was the drink so put him to bed and checked on him in the night.
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He had attended a pool competition as he was hoping to become a volunteer at the hostel.
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Mr Wilkinson's medical history showed problems in the past with drugs that had resulted in six overdoses by 2005. Mrs Wilkinson said her son had been clean since 2009.
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Where You Are and What You Know: Impact of Location and Education on Individual Engagement with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
Emily V. Sandstrom, University of Dayton
Rebecca Potter and Ryan McEwan
Environmental Biology and Sustainability
The United Nations created the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015 to include 17 goals and 169 targets that foster ongoing environmental, social, and global economic development and aims to accomplish each goal by 2030. There has been considerable enthusiasm in various sectors since the SDGs have been in place; however, there is still a significant amount of work to be done to engage experts and young scholars (the future experts) in the SDGs. According to Salvia, et al., researchers at institutions of higher learning from around the globe found a relation between locality and research, though questions remain concerning the role vocation and locality play in determining one's predilection for a given SDG. This project analyzes individual rankings of the SDGs by comparing responses from college students interested in environmental sciences and academic and field professionals engaged in ecological work or research.
Sandstrom, Emily V., "Where You Are and What You Know: Impact of Location and Education on Individual Engagement with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals" (2020). Honors Theses. 276.


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Donnchada, grandson of a Leinster king, Donogh (d. 726).
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Virgin and Saint Michael the Archangel.
any profitable work that a monk may do, so that none may be idle."
A church was built in 1829 on the medieval remains of Maelruain's abbey.
suppressed by the Dominicans in 1856 (Benedictines, Farmer, Montague).
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Awaiting the Will to Ensure Financial Market Stability
Paul Tucker, chair of the Systemic Risk Council and former deputy governor for financial stability at the Bank of England, says that financial markets are still facing serious stability risks. In a conversation with Yale SOM's Andrew Metrick, director of the Yale Program on Financial Stability, Tucker said it's time for central banks to "break the back of this excess leverage psychology which grips our financial markets."
Paul Tucker: Awaiting the Will to Ensure Financial Market Stability
Andrew Metrick
Janet L. Yellen Professor of Finance and Management
Paul Tucker
Former Deputy Governor for Financial Stability, Bank of England; Research Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School
Andrew Metrick: Thanks a lot for joining us today, Paul. We appreciate it. You're a great citizen for us at Yale. I want to ask you some questions about what we've learned over this last year on your topics of expertise.
First, markets were overwhelmed by transaction flows as the COVID crisis began last spring. In response, some have called for the Federal Reserve to establish a broad repurchase facility to help finance the intermediation of such flows. Others have suggested a shift to central clearing of Treasury trades to ease market pressures in times of stress. What do you see as the best approach for avoiding such periods of market dysfunction in the future?
Paul Tucker: It's good to join you, Andrew. Thanks for doing this. I think the first thing to say is how serious this was. Afterwards, I saw some American commentators describing the U.S. Treasury market as the most liquid capital market in the world. Well, that's plainly an exaggeration. I would say it's meant to be the most liquid capital market in the world. I think what we saw in March was really serious. I think to some extent it could have been anticipated.
I think the solutions are going to have to address a whole bunch of things. There are going to be problems in what economists call the market microstructure, and the ideas of a central clearing house are worth thinking about in that context, provided, and you won't be surprised to hear me say this, the people are sure they know how to resolve the clearing house without taxpayer money, if it gets into trouble.
But I also think that even if the market microstructure problems are sorted, it won't be enough because the other thing that became pretty evident in March is that loads of levered traders were out beyond where they could cope, beyond where they should have been. So, that's a problem about intermediaries, and about a resuscitation of leverage in a world of easy monetary policy, and we're going to have easy monetary policy for a while.
So, one of the points I really want to emphasize is this, that whereas in the autumn or the fall of 2008 Lehman failed, there was chaos and everyone realized there needed to be huge reform. It became a salient issue that got traction in the U.S. Congress, in the EU Council of Ministers and Parliament, and my own country's Westminster Parliament. In March, in a way, the global financial system was bailed out before it had cracked. People like me, and I think probably people like you, think there needs to be some reform, but it didn't feature in the election campaign, and it's not featuring in popular debates on the other side of the Atlantic. I think that [Federal Reserve Board chair] Jay Powell and incoming Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen need to explain that things aren't great in the world of finance.
Metrick: Continuing on this point of what happened in March, you've spoken in the past, and quite forcefully, about when we see the differences between a liquidity crisis and a solvency crisis, and how we tell that difference. Here, the Fed's response in the spring took two forms that we saw in the global financial crisis: the provision of liquidity to a wide range of firms and markets, and large asset purchases.
In this case, the purchases weren't really a QE2 so much as they were intended to ease market functioning. The Fed also established new credit programs to support access to credit, particularly by non-financial businesses.
Do you think those credit programs were appropriate? Why did the Fed need to go beyond the provision of liquidity in this case? What risks do you think these types of programs pose?
Tucker: There's a lot built into that. Let me go back to the beginning. Central banks can do about half a dozen things. They can stimulate aggregate demand to ensure the economy's on an even keel and inflation is kind of low and not very volatile. That's plainly not what the asset purchases were about in March. I think it was a great mistake to call them quantitative easing and treat them as though they're a monetary policy, because it raises the stakes for them being unwound, and in some jurisdictions actually changes the decision-making process.
The second thing you can do is that you can provide liquidity to markets, which is, I think, part of what they were doing in March and April. I call that market maker of last resort. I don't think—one can never be sure, but I don't think they needed to purchase as much as they did in March to stabilize markets.
Mario Draghi demonstrated that in some circumstances you don't need to buy anything to bring liquidity back to markets. A long time ago, I was the UK debt manager, and I think that in both London and New York, that scale of purchases wasn't needed to stabilize markets in the sense of restoring their liquidity.
Then there's providing liquidity to financial intermediaries. Then there's steering credit to different parts of the economy. Then there's underpinning prices or values, or if you turn that 'round, holding down Treasury borrowing costs, which is a different kind of activity altogether. The reason I think this matters is because I care about democracy. I think it matters in that sense, but I also think, just as a former policymaker, it's really helpful to be clear with the world what it is you're trying to do, because that forces you to be clear with yourself what you're trying to do.
So, with the credit facilities, I think they were trying to do two things. The emergency thing, which I completely support, was the economy is slowing down or closing down. We need to help the government get cash to households so that they stay under shelter, food on the table, and get cash to firms so that firms don't collapse unnecessarily as the economy closes. I've just put it that way because those are plainly finance ministry functions, which I think it's perfectly reasonable for the central bank to help finance in an emergency. But you might also expect, after the market emergency that's passed, the finance ministry to stand on its own feet a bit more, issuing bonds into the market to pension funds, insurance companies, and others, which hasn't really happened.
The other part of it is steering credit to different bits of the economy, to regions, to different kinds of business. One has to be very careful with this, how it's targeted, and recognize that that's political. And I'm not against it at all. I'm for what was done, but again, I'd like the politics of it to be a bit more upfront, because let's face it, a lot of ETF people and funds and some private equity people effectively got bailed out by the Fed, and people therefore talked more and more about, this is a supercharged version of the Fed Put. It's no longer a Greenspan Put or a Bernanke Put, or a Yellen Put. It's now the Fed Put, and it's everything.
To the extent that that's true—of course, I've just exaggerated, but to the extent that there's something in it, it's expedient in the short run, but costly in the long run because capitalism can't function on the basis that people in the market have a one-way risk. But it suits the politicians to stand back and let the central bank become the government. You know, if I wanted to be hyperbolic about it, I'd say one of the gravest challenges to the United States is, do you now have government by the Supreme Court and the Federal Reserve? Because actually, it suits Congress, the elected people, to sit on their hands.
I don't think these are kind of highfalutin things that are for the seminar room. I think they're big things about who we expect to make choices in our economies. I don't expect Jay Powell, or when I was in office, Mervyn King and I, to decide we're going to support this region. We're going to let another type of company fail. So, again, I support broadly what was done. I feel uncomfortable about the politics of it.
Metrick: These are important themes that you've discussed before, and we see that they are in fact timeless, so they come back and they came back with a vengeance in this particular one.
I'm going to ask you now to critique the Fed, and specifically where their most recent stance—or agree, agree or critique—which is that the recent policy is very accommodating, including the September forward guidance calling for inflation to overshoot its 2% objective for a time, and continuation of the very large asset purchase program. Some have suggested these policies could lead investors to reach for yield by purchasing riskier assets and taking on greater leverage. To address that possible moral hazard, should the accommodative monetary policy have been coupled with supervisory measures to limit leverage and risk-taking in trading markets?
Tucker: "Yes" is the bottom line, but let me work up to that. With fiscal policy not set at zero, but set pretty weakly over most of the last 10 years, and given its mandate and function, the Federal Reserve, Bank of England, and ECB haven't had many choices but to do everything they can to ease financial conditions and try to restore a decent rate of economic growth. In a sense, this is the strategic game that we were talking about a moment ago. I don't think, by the way, that the rejigging of the Federal Reserve's regime into a form of price-level targeting is going to make much difference. It might make a bit of difference, but I don't think it will make much difference. I think the big issue is, what are the instruments to be used?
But that's not what you asked about. They and their peers elsewhere could have done something to ease the pressure building in financial markets. This is not said with hindsight. In the jargon they could have raised initial margin requirements in certain parts of the capital markets. They could have raised haircuts on certain other parts of the capital markets, repo trades and securities trades. They could have done that partly using their regulatory powers, including powers they were given in the 1930s and they've never used. And they could have done that as well through the terms they've set on access to the discount window, their own haircuts. But if you take away the jargon, what are these things, these collateral requirements? They're the inverse of a leverage cap for a trade-up.
When I was in office, I was once in a meeting between the Financial Stability Board, the G20 thing, and a bunch of top Wall Street people, and people from the City as well. They were arguing—I was slightly late for the meeting and someone was arguing for zero initial margin requirements. My side of the table was quiet, and I interrupted, actually. I said, "Could you just remind me what a zero initial margin requirement is in terms of leverage?" Of course, it's infinite. They were kind of slightly embarrassed, it turned out, to be pushing for that idea.
I think that over the past five, six, seven, or eight years there hasn't been sufficient focus on the incentives to shift activity outside of the re-regulated banks into the traded markets. That can be a very good thing. I'm a huge supporter of capital markets, but then to build your own bank in the capital markets with liquidity mismatches, and in particular with excess leverage—I think that's what we saw blow up in March on both sides of the Atlantic.
I do think that something could have been done about this. I once had a conversation with a former Fed boss many years ago about why they never used their margin requirement tool. And they said, well, they'd done studies in the '70s or something, that they kind of wouldn't work. I said, "Yeah, well, that's about the equity markets. You're not restricted to the equity markets. This may be non-linear. It might work if you set the minimum requirements higher."
The argument I'm making here is that there's finance going on here and also political economy; in a world where the fiscal policymaker won't act and relies on the monetary policymaker to do everything, but the monetary policymaker almost inevitably stimulates froth in financial markets, as well as spending in the economy, then there is some good in raising collateral requirements in financial markets.
And that would in turn probably get people on Wall Street and around Wall Street to say to Congress, "Maybe you should be using more fiscal policy and a little bit less of the Federal Reserve. We'd like lower haircuts and more public spending, or lower taxes or something." I think they've missed a trick on this. This isn't with hindsight, and I think it's a great shame and it's a great pity that no one has tried this.
"We're awaiting our Paul Volcker moment. The moment where finally a Fed leader…says, 'I am going to break the back of this excess leverage psychology which grips our financial markets.'"
It's something I hope will resonate with you, Andrew, and the people that are listening here. On this financial stability stuff, we're awaiting our Paul Volcker moment. The moment where there is finally a Fed leader, or a Bank of England leader, or ECB leader that says, "I am going to break the back of this excess leverage psychology which grips our financial markets."
Metrick: I look forward to sharing with you some of the work I'm doing with [former Federal Reserve Board member] Dan Tarullo now on exactly this topic. I think you'll find we're in complete agreement. Dan wanted to use some of those margining powers in his role at the Fed. He, and I know you were part of it too, had conversations with the FSB on how to put some of these things into place. In the United States, extra complication is while the Fed has some of those powers, the SEC has others of them.
Tucker: Yes.
Metrick: And we need to somehow make sure that they're coordinated, which has got its own political economy.
Tucker: There's a kind of design problem here, but I think it goes deeper than that because the Bank of England, I'm pretty sure, has those powers, because I'm kind of one of the key architects of the powers that they have, and they didn't do it either.
I slightly feel that this is like the 1970s, in the monetary field, where people haven't quite got their head either around the economics or around what their powers are, what actually they could do, and that the world doesn't end, thinking back to the '70s, if you raise interest rates to lean against inflation. I don't think the world would end if we raised collateral requirements sometimes to constrain leverage in the capital markets.
Metrick: So, I think maybe you've answered my next question, which is the right way to be handling these financial stability risks is through those types of macroprudential tools. But there's also another view. And indeed, in the framework review that the Fed just had, they indicated they could adjust monetary policy in response to concerns about financial stability risks.
I think you've already talked a bit about this. [Former Federal Reserve Board member] Jeremy Stein used to say, "Monetary policy gets into all the cracks, and thus, we should perhaps use it for a lot of these different things." What's your view? Should monetary policy be used to deal with financial stability risks in addition to the standard monetary policy stuff?
Tucker: Two things. First of all, on Jeremy's thing, he's a great friend of mine, and I'm also a great admirer of his. I don't think this is the wisest thing he's ever said, which is only worth mentioning for how often it's repeated. I don't actually think it's true in a world of cross-border finance. If exchange rates adjusted absolutely perfectly to relative changes in interest rates, then it would be true, but I don't think it is true. It may be true for the United States that monetary policy will get into all of the cracks that affect credit conditions in the United States. But I don't think it's true for other countries because people would just borrow from the neighboring country in a different currency.
But even if Jeremy's right, I don't think that's the way to go. I think financial stability tools, including dynamic margining requirements, should be tried first. There's a higher-level point here about policymaking, which is that we shouldn't overload monetary policy with lots of different objectives until we have convinced ourselves, not just in the classroom but in the real world, that the other tools that we have do not or cannot work in the real world.
I think the grownup thing to do is to leave monetary policy focused on stabilizing aggregate demand, and most of all, anchoring medium- to long-term inflation expectations, and then seeing whether we've got tools to do these other things.
I think we have. I might be proved wrong. And then, yes, someone like me would say, "OK, well then, maybe we need to retreat to using monetary policy to do it." But to automatically conclude that monetary policy is the right tool to use when you haven't tried these other things is, I think mistaken. I think in this respect—and this is going to sound rather harsh—I thought that in this respect, I thought that part of the Fed review is a pretty poor piece of work because it doesn't get into, well, are there other options?
This is partly an institutional dynamic. There are dynamics that push everything to being done in the FOMC [Federal Open Market Committee]. Look at the number of regional presidents that talk about financial stability and regulatory policy, some of them very intelligently. They have not got powers delegated by Congress. They have not. Maybe they should have, but they haven't. The FOMC does much of, or even all of, monetary policy. The Fed Board needs to stand up, and we need to be much more conscious of it as a macroprudential body.
Metrick: Now, the Bank of England, of course, is a very different design. So, I wondered there, given the way that they're set up now with various committees in the UK, how would you recommend this problem be solved there?
Tucker: I think, if a body in the UK was to dynamically vary minimum margin requirements or haircut requirements or something else, that would be a job for the Financial Policy Committee. I think it's a pity that they didn't do so. Because they had similar problems in their government bond market to New York's problems and the Treasury bond market. London, too, seems to have permitted excess leverage to build up again, outside in the penumbra of the banking system, and they seem not to have used the tools that they have. They haven't been slow on other things. They did various things to try and cool the housing market, more than I actually think they probably needed to do.
So I think this goes back to maybe in London, we're not in the 1970s, but we're still in the 1980s or the equivalent of monetary policy. Well, you've got an institution, you've got some instruments. Use them, but build a case for using them, and explain how you use them; do the research, take it to your parliamentary testimony.
"I don't yet see a willingness to really try to preserve financial stability, even after the last crisis."
So I don't yet see—not just the point about the Bank of England and the Fed—I don't yet see a willingness to really try to preserve financial stability, even after the last crisis. We hear too much about, "Well, we've improved the resilience of the banks." Since I am one of the people, among plenty of others, who can take credit for that, I think it's important for people like me, and Dan, [former governor of the Bank of England] Mervyn King, and others to say, "Well, that can't be the end of it. That's not enough."
Metrick: Well, thanks very much, Paul. This was great as usual. It's wonderful that you come back to talk to our students and to all of our other stakeholders here at Yale, and to share these interesting thoughts. We're looking forward to the next book.
Tucker: Thanks, Andrew. It's great to talk to you, and you do a wonderful job in Yale. It's really important for the world that you have this center focused on financial stability and looking at it properly.
Metrick: Thank you, Paul. Have a good day.
Tucker: See you. Take care.
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When can we expect the Construction update to come out Mod Ronnan?
"we open a brand new Deadman mode server for 6 days." does this mean you will be taking ANOTHER world away from skillers despite the poll saying you couldn't? dmm is dead as it is. why would you throw another world at it. frankly my dear, I couldn't give a dam. never had a river to build one on.
And now you are paying $ 10k and spending time and efford on the dmm tournament and reboot with new servers/accounts.
Only thing i see is, we did so much efford in dmm and it's a big fail. Lets desperately try something and try making it popular again.
But are the people fit to rule?
Looking forward to the Deadman Tournament - hope we can have some more details on any changes from normal deadman worlds for the tourny and maybe some more publicity, seeing how this post isn't even on the homepage.
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Cariboo Rose Begins Drilling on the Woodjam Property
Cariboo Rose Resources (TSX-V: CRB) has started drilling on the Woodjam gold-copper property, located in south-central British Columbia, five kilometres south of Imperial Metals Corp's (TSX: III) Mount Polley mine property. The Woodjam property is a joint venture in which Cariboo Rose holds a 40% interest and Fjordland Exploration Inc. (TSX-V: FEX) holds a 60% interest.
Three holes are planned to test a geophysical induced polarization (IP) anomaly recently discovered by the ongoing 2007 survey program at the property. To date, approximately 100 kilometres of IP and magnetic geophysical surveys have been completed at Woodjam. The surveys have uncovered a new zone 3 kilometres east of the Takom area, called the Southeast Zone, and suggests that a large intrusive/hydrothermal complex measuring approximately five kilometres by six kilometres underlies the almost 30,000 hectare Woodjam property, with at least three large IP chargeability anomalies. Two of these, the Megabuck and Takom Zones, are associated with known copper and gold mineralization while the Southeast Zone has had no previous exploration.
The geophysical survey data dramatically expands the area of interest for exploration on the Woodjam property and suggests a much greater potential for discovery than previously envisioned. Northeasterly trending geologic features have long been considered important in determining the location of large mineralizing systems in the generally northwest trending Quesnel Terrane. This recent data suggests that such a feature is present and is aligned with the known mineralized areas on the property.
The Woodjam property has had approximately 16,000 metres of drilling since 2001, most of which has been in the Megabuck zone. Exploration has demonstrated that the property is prospective for bulk-tonnage gold-copper deposits similar to other porphyry deposits in B.C.'s Quesnel Terrane. Drilling in 2004 included a hole that intersected 378 metres grading 0.81 g/t gold and 0.12% copper and another that intersected 397 metres grading 0.82 g/t gold and 0.12% copper. Drilling in 2006 included a hole with 94 metres grading 0.95 g/t gold and 0.19% copper and another hole with 92 metres grading 1.0 g/t gold and 0.22% copper.
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About Cariboo Rose Resources Ltd.
Cariboo Rose Resources Ltd. is a Canadian public resource company that trades on the TSX - Venture exchange under the symbol CRB and currently operates five mineral exploration projects in Western Canada. It was spun off from Wildrose Resources Ltd. (TSX-V: WRS) in 2006, to allow Wildrose to focus on the Spanish Mountain Project. Cariboo Rose is part of the Eastfield Group. Since its inception in 1987, the Eastfield Group has utilized a successful business strategy that leverages its exposure by securing third party exploration financing on the majority of its projects. The other companies in the Eastfield Group are Eastfield Resources (TSX-V: ETF) and Wildrose Resources.
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will the tracker still work without having a subscription?
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In celebration of International Girls in ICT Day 2015, the Digital Leadership Institute and its partners - the Council of European Professional Informatics Societies, DIGITALEUROPE, European Centre for Women and Technology, and European Schoolnet - will launch the third edition of the European Ada Awards recognising outstanding girls and women in digital studies & careers in Europe, and the organisations who support them.
The opening ceremony for the 2015 European Ada Awards will feature lightening talks by inspiring Digital Leaders including girls and women in tech from across Europe, past & current Ada Award-winners, and supporters of the Awards from the public and private sectors from Brussels, Belgium, Europe, and beyond.
Finger food and refreshments will be kindly provided by Cisco Belux.
17:00-19:00 - g-Hive workshop on "Girls & The Future Internet" : A hands-on workshop for girls*, ages 13-17, to promote active participation and leadership by girls in designing and building the Internet of tomorrow, for fun, safety and wellbeing.
19:00-20:00 - 2015 European Ada Awards Launch & "Inspiring Digital Leaders" Talks, hosted by Ms. Cheryl Miller, DLI Founder & Executive Director.
20:00-22:00 - inQube workshop "Quantify Everything" : Third workshop in the Spring 2015 "Build A Kick&ss Online Presence" series for women* by Ms. Selma Franssen, DLI Communications Director & inQube Community Manager.
Thank you to our 2014-2015 Ada Award Partners & Sponsors !


Continuing the evolution of the Biturbo, the Maserati Racing was presented in December 1990, which received a restyled nose inspired by the Shamal. Mechanical advancements included a new Getrag gearbox and intelligent, active shock absorbers from Koni. Under its hood, the 24-valve version of the 2.0-liter twin-turbo V6 engine featured a number of modifications, including a new crankshaft, lighter connecting rods and a higher compression ratio. Together with modified turbochargers, the 160 mph Racing was the most powerful 2.0-liter production car in the world.


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I have been in many power chairs over the past twenty years and none have taken me half the palces that my Tracabout has. For the first time since my spinal injury I am able to follow deer trails, go over 6"-8" logs, and go anywhere in the great outdoor with very few exceptions.
I am very thankful to the engineers and all the fine people who are involved in the production of this outstanding wheelchair.
I would like to take this opportunity to let you know how much I am enjoying my Track-A-Bout. It has opened up a whole new world of hunting and fishing for me. I can now get to places that I have not been able to go for the 24 years that I have been confined to a wheelchair.
I bagged a turkey this spring and also a deer during the Black Powder season in September and plan on getting another in December during the regular firearms season. Thanks to the Trac-A-Bout that made it all possible.
I have looked at a lot of powered chairs but have found none to compare. This chair will take me just about anywhere I want to go regardless of mud or snow.
I want to thank you for making life a lot more pleasant and opening up a whole new world for many of us handicapped people.
My name is Tim Ward. I am an "incomplete" quadrepelegic. This means I have no muscle use or feeling below mid-chest and that my hands are somewhat impaired. I have been using my Trac-About for slightly more than one year. It has been a return to freedom for me. I can, again, function independently.
I am in the lawn construction business. The Trac-About has given me the ability to bid my jobs even if the terrain is extremely rough, uneven, freshly tilled, or whatever the conditions might be. It will even handle slopes of up to 30 degrees. I can now complete more of the work without assistance.
I have the freedom to go fishing, hunting, or even head for the Colorado ski slopes. I have always enjoyed active sports and am again able to participate. Thanks again to my Trac-About. This chair is good for a trip of up to 10 to 12 miles without recharging. This gives me plenty of distance to run errands, go to the sand-pit to fish, or tour my neighborhood. the fact that I can negotiate curbs and steps up to 6 inches in a real plus. If I want to go further from home, the Trac-About is easily loaded into my Ford Van that is equipped with a standard wheelchair lift. The lift has no trouble handling the Trac-About.
I have never been stranded or even stuck with this machine. This certainly gives me a secure feeling considering much of my neighborhood is very sandy and undeveloped. I cannot say too many positive things about my Trac-About.
Just a brief note to let you all know what a wonderful wheelchair you have. This chair has given me the freedom and mobility that I've only dreamed about. The traction is unbelievable! This chair can and will go anywhere here in the Pennsylvania terrain! I've had the pleasure of testing your chair for the last two months and it has never left me down! It is definitely a terrific outdoor recreational vehicle for the physically challenged and anyone else for that matter. My walking friends and family have had as much fun with this chair as I have!
I highly recommend this chair to any physically challenged outdoor person. Thanks so much Lloyd and Glenn for a fantastic chair.
In February 1999, President Drew MCartney attended the Kansas Outdoor Travel Show and met Lloyd Wolfe and Glenn Wells, of TracAbout, Inc., Newton, Kansas.
Drew explained to them who he was, about the PCBA and me. Later that evening, Drew called me to tell me about this awesome power chair that he'd just seen.
He thought I'd be interested in it, told me to check their web site, www.tracabout.com and let him know what I thought.
I was awed by what I was seeing. Being confined to a wheelchair for 20 years, I was very skeptical about their claims.
I've put wheelchairs through some of their toughest tests and never one that actually did what it's makers claimed.
We contacted Lloyd and Glenn and asked for some information on their new power chairs and told them about our upcoming membership meeting and hunt in Henrietta, Oklahoma.
They said they'd like to attend and show their chairs.
Glenn and Lloyd made that hunt and to say that I was extremely impressed is an understatement.
I put one of the chairs through the paces there. It was a perfect place, rough, stony, hilly terrain, grass and woods!
Perfect, since that's the kind of place this chair was made for! For the three-day weekend, I tried the chair out and by the end of the weekend, I knew I'd just found my next power chair. I went home, called my chair company, Chesapeake Rehab, and told them I found my new power chair, a TracAbout, I also told them I wanted to become a local distributor, since Lloyd and Glenn said they needed national distributors.
They agreed to see the char and we set up a visit by Glenn. Once they saw the chair and what it could do they decided to become a distributor.
Glenn, Lloyd and I were on the phone with the different specifications I needed and I told them (kiddingly) that I wanted it in camouflage since I would be hunting fromit.
No problem, they said - there was a place close to them in Kansas that could supply it. That was perfect!
They sent the camouflage patterns and I orderd the ADVANTAGE pattern. Since I would need special seating, I had Chesapeake working on the seat while my chair was being built in Kansas.
On July 5, Glenn brought my TracAbout to Pittsburgh, for Rehab Dimensions to finish. It was an awesome sight to see!
I finally received the chair at home on July 19 and I can't tell you what a great piece of equipment it is. It's given me the freedom and mobility that I've always dreamed about.
It's just unbelievable! I can go anywhere here in Pennsylvania or anywhere else for that matter! My wife, Karen, may never know where I'm at now!
The TracAbout can go from your living room to the beach, a favorite fishing or hunting area or anywhere you want to go. TracAbout has an electronic joystick, variable speed that offers smooth, effortless steering.
Spped can be variable in a selection of five ranges. Slower ranges allow for a zero turning radius for maneuvering in tight spots with plenty of "get-up-and-go" in the wide-open spaces.
This allows you to travel some distance in just a short time, about 12 miles depending on terrain and weight of driver.
It has a unique indoor-outdoor track design (no more flat tires!) that goes through uneven terrain, sand, mud, and snow.
You can cut across ruts, over tree limbs, cables, cords and objects up to 4 inches high as if it was on smooth surfaces.
This chair provides us with mobility during all four seaons. As their advertisements state, "Where do you want to go today?"
It's the absolute truth! I highly recommend that anyone in the marget for a power chair consider the TracAbout.
Not only have I gotten one, but I know of three other PCBA members who are either at this moment ordering theirs or about to order.
For more information or to order, call TracAbout, Inc. 1-800-458-8616, or visit them online at: www.tracabout.com. Let Lloyd and Glenn know you read about it in "The Good News."
top To visit the Physically Challenged Bowhunters of America website, click the link!
Although we do not recommend or support the following adventures, this is real life, and we are happy for Fred to be able to get out there and go. Fred knows that he exceeds the limits of the IRV2000, but as you can read and see, nothing slows him down. Even though he is a C6-7 quadriplegic with fairly good arm & wrist movement, but no finger movement, Fred has assured us that he is being careful. It is also important the he has a support system of friends and family with him when he goes to places like this.
These kind of extreme conditions should NEVER be attempted unless you are an experienced operator like Fred.
As a side note, this is why Fred traded in his other "all terrain" wheel chair (like the one shown in our video). As Fred states below, ".....getting out in nature, going places in the Trac About that no wheelchair could ever take me.", that is one of the main reasons Trac About, Inc. exists today. Enjoy!
Yesterday was a really special day. After driving half an hour deep into the forest, we parked at the end of the road. Diana, Daniel, Victor (our new Mexican helper) and I spent a couple hours exploring around Deer View.
I unloaded the TracAbout and followed the creek for awhile, churning up mud as I went along. The others walked along the bank, staying dry.
Getting me out of the creek was a challenge - Daniel and Victor pulled as I held on and backed up the steep bank.
After several more obstacles and steep hills, we came out into an open meadow full of ancient pear trees and blackberry vines. The pears and berries were still green, so we couldn't bring any home.
Victor found a few ripening berries to eat.
Beyond the orchard we explored the retailing walls behind the ancient lodge, built in the 1920's.
Then I got a notion to see how far I could navigate the old road that came in from the upper side. It was thickly overgrown.
This old fallen tree was an obstacle I couldn't climb over. So I turned around and rammed it from behind. After half a dozen times, the log snapped.
I pushed it back and kept going until it was at the edge of the old road and we could continue exploring.
This small cedar was too hard to snap, so Daniel hefted it up and I ducked underneath. Eventually we came upon logs too large for me or anyone else to move, so we had to go back - by a different route, of course!
After crashing through thick forest and over many obstacles, we were almost back to the Deer View ruins when we came upon one last obstacle. I spun around and rammed the log until it snapped in two places.
Then I shoved it out of the way and continued going, delighted we had conquered the old overgrown road and made it through without any mishaps.
Back across a small creek crossing . . .
Then down that steep bank again. Kinda scary!
I had to hold on tight to keep from flopping over face down into the mud!
Got my feet wet a few times and had to dodge berry thorns as I went.
What a fun time we enjoyed together, getting out in nature, going places in the Trac About that no wheelchair could ever take me. I felt so energized and exhilarated! In fact, while driving home in the van I was so charged up, I surprised the boys and scared Diana as I raced along the narrow, overgrown road at high speed, did a few sideways slides and gave them a few other thrills before we calmly backed into the garage. When can we go again? I'm ready!
P.S. Today is Daniel's last day home for the summer - tomorrow he gets on Amtrak and heads back to DayStar Academy for his Senior year. He's been a joy to have around - so strong and helpful and grown up and motivated - we're really proud of him!


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Performers announced for the CLASSIC BRIT AWARDS 2012 including cast of Phantom Of The Opera
GARY BARLOW, ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER AND GARETH MALONE WITH THE MILITARY WIVES CHOIR CONFIRMED FOR
THE CLASSIC BRIT AWARDS 2012 with MasterCard
BRITISH TENOR RUSSELL WATSON, AMORE AND
CLASSICAL GUITARIST MILOŠ KARADAGLIĆ
ALSO CONFIRMED
SPECIAL PERFORMANCE FROM THE CAST OF
London, Tuesday 18 September 2012: The UK's recorded music association, The BPI, today announced that Gary Barlow, Andrew Lloyd Webber, TheMilitary Wives Choir, Russell Watson, Amore, Milos Karadaglić and the cast of ThePhantom of the Opera are confirmed to perform at the Classic BRIT Awards 2012 with MasterCard. Taking place at the Royal Albert Hall on 2 October 2012, the spectacular line-up is set to make the thirteenth annual Classic BRIT Awards an unforgettable show.
The performance by Gary Barlow, Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber and The Military Wives Choir, conducted by Gareth Malone, will be a showstopper in a celebration of what has been an incredible year for Great Britain and the music that defined the Diamond Jubilee and the London 2012 Olympic Games. With Gary Barlow and Andrew Lloyd Webber taking centre stage to play two grand pianos, they will perform their UK no.1 single 'Sing' with the Classic BRITs Single of the Year nominees, The Military Wives Choir.
Gary Barlow said: 'The Classic BRITs is something I've never done before, so I'm very excited to be a part of it. It'll be nice to get everyone back together for a performance of 'Sing' as we've only ever performed it once together live.'
Four times Classic BRIT Award winner Russell Watson has also confirmed that he will finally return to the Classic BRITs Awards stage following his devastating cancellation the night before last year's show due to ill health. This will be a very special night for the Lancashire tenor who has been nominated for Classic FM Album of the Year in association with MasterCard for his release 'Anthems'. This is Russell's eighth Classic BRIT award nomination. Following their exceptional performance at the launch Amore have also been confirmed to join Russell Watson on stage.
Milos Karadaglić the critically acclaimed Montenegrin classical guitarist will make his Classic BRIT Awards performance debut. It was announced last Thursday that Milos is nominated for Classic FM Album of theYear in association with MasterCard for his release 'The Guitar' with a second nomination for his album 'Latino' in the MasterCard's Breakthrough Artist of the Year Award category.
Following the incredible rousing performance by the cast of Les Miserables at the Classic BRIT Awards 2011, the event continues to embrace musical theatre and the Classic BRIT Awards 2012 have confirmed that the cast of Phantom of the Opera will perform a special arrangement from this phenomenal musical success with soloists Ramin Karimloo and Sierra Boggess.
Previously announced performers André Rieu, Nicola Benedetti and Andrea Bocelli will join these astounding artists for what will surely be one of the most remarkable shows in the Awards history.
Taking place on 2 October at the Royal Albert Hall, The Classic BRIT Awards 2012 will be hosted by Myleene Klass. Hollywood legend John Williams is this year's recipient of the Lifetime Achievement award. This will be celebrated by a visual and audio spectacular performed by the London Chamber Orchestra conducted by James Morgan. The orchestra will present a montage of John Williams' towering body of film score epics such as Star Wars, Harry Potter, Jaws, Indiana Jones, Superman, ET and Close Encounters of theThird Kind.
In addition to the Lifetime Achievement, there will be eight awards handed out on the night:
Classic FM Album of the Year
Male Artist
Female Artist
MasterCard's Breakthrough Artist the Year Award
Classic BRITs Single of the Year
Critics' Award
International Artist of the Year – Andrea Bocelli
Lifetime Achievement – John Williams
The Classic BRIT Awards plays a major role in supporting and nurturing talent in both the core and crossover classical world. The event was established in 2000 to honour and recognise all forms of classical music from contemporary to crossover, opera to soundtracks, traditional to theatre and has continued to evolve as classical music has once again become a major seller in the music world.
Tickets are on sale now and are available from the Royal Albert Hall box office on 020 7589 8212. Ranging from £20 to £287.50 for a full dinner/show experience, the Classic BRIT Awards remains one of the best value for money experiences on the classical calendar.
The Classic BRIT Awards 2012 with MasterCard will be broadcast on ITV1 on Sunday 7th October on ITV1.
* Classic FM Album of the Year in association with MasterCard has an eligibility period of 18 months due to the fact that the Classic BRIT Awards 2011 took place in May 2011. Voting ends at 6:00pm on Friday 21 September.
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MASSENA -- Friday's Atz Kilcher concert at the St. Lawrence Centre will be in the Elite Events Party Room, the former Aladdin's Castle.
The show was originally planned to be in the St. Lawrence Centre Sports Complex, the former St. Lawrence Centre Arena.
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Demi Lovato and Nick Jonas are heading out on a joint tour next summer and as an early celebration they've announced a first-come, first-served show at Irving Plaza in New York on Monday (Oct. 26) night.
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Markets VIX volatility
'Perspective Is Not A Static Concept': Kocic Delivers 2020 Vol. Outlook And It Is Quite Something
"A consequence of our reaction to the underlying informational overload".
"Too much information" is an (aging) pop culture reference to an uncomfortable situation.
It's also a good way to describe the prevailing macro and geopolitical environment.
Each and every day, traders (and market participants more generally) are bombarded with so many ostensibly consequential headlines that paralysis ensues. Eventually, apathy kicks in – the longer-term outlook becomes so impossibly uncertain that everyone submits to a kind of fatalism.
That's the broad context for a characteristically brilliant year-ahead piece from Deutsche Bank's Aleksandar Kocic, whose outlook for the vol. market describes low volatility levels, compressed vol risk premia, and flat vol forwards as "a consequence of our reaction to the underlying informational overload that eclipses our capacity for statistical approximation and affects the temporal regime of our decision making".
Anyone familiar with Kocic's work knows his notes are beyond compare, both in terms of the depth of analysis and especially the craftsmanship. His 2020 outlook is no exception.
A half-dozen pages in, he documents two decades of vol flows, noting that in order to understand "the current predicament of rates vol" (i.e., levels and the shape of the vol surface), and to determine what the future holds, one needs to appreciate history.
He breaks things up into two regimes, illustrating the dynamics with a pair of schematic representations in which "each 'orbit' corresponds to a different size relative to the largest bubble". Here's his quick explainer:
For example Pension fund flows accounted to about 20% of the spec flows, which were about the same magnitude as the GSE flows etc. Buyers reside in the upper hemisphere and sellers in the lower. They are separated by the equator. Dealers are in the center of all flows
Prior to the crisis, the vol market was demand driven, he notes, describing it as "a period of unprecedented systematization of mortgage hedging practices and concentration of negative mortgage convexity in a relatively small number of portfolios, as well as an aggressive growth of the hedge funds community".
During that regime, negative convexity hedging transmitted the optionality of homeowners to the market. "The market was negatively convex with convexity of mortgages distributed across different strikes over a wide range of rates", Kocic writes, adding that "there was always some hedging to do, which kept realized vol elevated and volatility risk premia well supported".
In the second regime (i.e., post-crisis) mortgage-related demand disappears and the Fed comes off the sidelines, taking an active role as convexity supplier/manager.
Read more: 'Through The Looking Glass' – The Fed In Convexity Wonderland
The new era is, Kocic says, "defined by the post-2008 regulatory changes, nationalization of mortgage negative convexity, reduction of risk appetite, and recentering of supply and demand".
The "topology" is the same, he writes, but the "players and their role has changed".
(Deutsche Bank)
Thanks in part to regulatory changes, the market now functions in "insurance mode", something Kocic has talked at length about before, notably back in March. You can read more on that in "The Gamma See-Saw: Deutsche's Kocic Explains This Week's Biggest Market Story".
Post-2008, demand has been re-centered. As shown in the second visual, money managers and hedge funds are the biggest participants. Here is Kocic's bullet-point breakdown of how the market evolved:
2000 – 2003 Mortgage convexity hedging dominates; high consolidation of hedging practices and high concentration of negative convexity.
2004 – 2007 Convexity hedgers encounter regulatory difficulties; most of mortgage convexity resides on bank portfolios and is not hedged (transmission mechanisms are severed); unprecedented growth of hedge funds as core sellers of volatility; compression of risk premia, yield grabbing and carry trade.
2008 – 2011 Financial crisis is in full swing with massive short covering of convexity amidst unprecedented spread widening and dry out in vol supply
2012 – 2015 Return of supply; emergence of the Fed as the main supplier of convexity; compression of rates range and, low realized volatility; dominance of the carry trade; beginning of Formosa supply.
> 2015 Complacency reaches new highs; Fed exit and management of convexity through their communication with the market; Formosa supply in full swing and yield enhancement continue to push vol lower
Underscoring and otherwise summarizing the setup at the heart of many of the dynamics we touch on in these pages each and every week, Kocic writes that "money managers [have] emerged as major players — buyers of vega and sellers of gamma as yield enhancement catalyzed by implicit convexity supply of Central Banks" while hedge funds have "shifted from structural to cautious sellers".
Some specs, Kocic notes, have stayed "true to their pre-2008 character" but a "growing number are now competing with the dealers" whose capacity and willingness to hold assets is circumscribed by a more onerous regulatory environment. "Dealers are pushed into a long vol position which further reinforces low volatility and encourages gamma selling", Kocic goes on to say.
Next, he recaps a broader discussion around the redistribution of leverage. In short, households and the financial sector have deleveraged, while the public sector and the non-financial corporate sector took the baton. You can read more on that in "There Are No More High-Speed Collisions, Only 'Parking Accidents'", but the bottom line is that whereas previously, depressed volatility would have been viewed as an ominous sign, portending (potentially imminent) disaster, now, it's assumed to be the sustainable status quo.
"Volatility and curve are now causally trapped by each other", Kocic remarked on Tuesday evening. "For volatility to return in a meaningful way, the right side of the (rates) distribution needs to open up and, for (long) rates to be liberated, risk (and volatility) has to be brought back".
There are a couple of different avenues by which the curve could bear steepen, opening the door to higher vol. One is simply for the regulatory environment to become less restrictive, liberating banks' balance sheets.
The other is fiscal stimulus. So far, supply-side measures (e.g., the tax cuts) haven't produced the desired results, thanks at least in part to the Ricardian-equivalent nature of the Trump administration's deficit-ballooning stimulus push (See: Trump May Have A Ricardian Equivalence Problem).
As for the types of policies which could bring about a real bear-steepening, suffice to say political opposition to a truly redistributive agenda remains entrenched, both inside the Beltway and among the electorate, large swaths of which have been conditioned to believe that "socialism" everywhere and always equals "Venezuela".
Read more: No Escape From 'Flattening Vortex' As Long As 'Resistance To Redistributive Forces' Persists
And yet, through it all, long-term risks certainly haven't disappeared. Indeed, the future looks more indeterminate than ever. Geopolitical risks have proliferated and it's hard enough to get a read on what's coming next week, let alone next year or five years hence.
But as we exit the "second decade" (a reference to the visuals above) and enter the third, volatility levels are low and risk premia compressed, with seemingly no path to escape velocity barring deregulation, the adoption of a progressive agenda in D.C. (which could aggressively bear steepen the curve) or central banks all at once abandoning efforts to keep volatility suppressed in the face of intractable political entropy.
Although the persistence of low vol can appear strange, Kocic writes that "such state of affairs reflects less the distribution of long-term risks than indifference to what lies ahead". He continues:
Given the underlying political entropy and reality contortions, which it continues to produce, we are forced to abandon as inadequate the tools and frameworks that used to provide insight and access beyond immediate future and, in the absence of their replacement, confine our efforts to short-term horizons.
And then, prior to outlining trade recommendations, Kocic delivers two paragraphs that serve as a reminder of why we continually describe him as peerless. We're going to present them without further editorializing and without attempting to paraphrase, because, as you'll see, they are perfect on their own (we should note that the excerpts presented in this post, including those below, represent but a fraction of Kocic's note, which, in its entirety, spans more than a dozen pages and delves into myriad technical discussions and tradable dynamics that are reserved for the bank's clients). To wit, from Aleks:
Perspective is not a static concept, it is a function of condition under which it is formed. In skydiving, eyeballing consists in visually assessing our distance from the ground during the fall. We evaluate our altitude and work out the exact moment we need to open our parachute based on a dynamic visual impression. At 2000 meters, immediately after the jump, we cannot see the ground approaching. But when we reach the 800 to 600 meter mark, we start to see it "coming". The sensation is very different than when observing the ground from a "static" perspective, e.g. from the plane at the same (600m) altitude. Speed affects our perspective: As the ground "rushes" towards us, the apparent diameter of objects increases faster and faster than our distance from the ground shrinks, and we suddenly have the feeling we are not seeing them closer but seeing them move apart suddenly, as though the ground were splitting open.
Perspective is dependent on speed — it is a function of acceleration. When extreme events begin to saturate the info-sphere on daily basis (sometimes even intraday), reality unfolds too fast – we no longer remember (or don't care about) the headlines from two or three weeks ago. Our perspective and assessment of the horizon ("cognitive eyeballing") is distorted. We are blinkered by intensity of information we have to process – overwhelmed by both its quantity and speed of its arrival – and no longer seem to be unable to properly assess the risks ahead of us, and have become insensitive to them. The distorted perspective downplays the risk of "hitting the ground". The informational intensity transcends our capacity for statistical approximation and this rarefication of control affects the temporal regime of our decision making. As a consequence, our horizons flatten and everything that resides beyond immediate future is bundled as "long-term" — we appear to be indifferent to its temporal distance — it is all equally remote and equally out of grasp and we capitulate on our efforts to forecast beyond short term horizons. In this environment, the term structure of volatility becomes congruent with flatness of horizons and the shape of the surface becomes an expression of the disorienting condition based on a confusion of the actual and the virtual.
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