Jane Street's sneaky retention tactic
H edge funds will go to great lengths in pursuit of profits, whether it is by counting cars in satellite photos of parking lots or shipping gold across the Atlantic. Building a compiler—a piece of software that turns human-written code into programs a computer can execute—for your homegrown language? That still raises eyebrows.
Pity Tommy Norris. And his real-world equivalents
Not that American investors need a guide—a booming industry is doing the job for them
Polymarket and Kalshi are soaring in popularity. With a few tweaks, they could really take off
Across the West the number of new arrivals is plummeting
The answer is not hedge funds or quant shops or short-sellers
Politicians are reaching for increasingly extreme measures
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