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...billion Amount hedge-fund firm Amaranth Advisors lost this month betting on rising natural-gas prices--which fell...
It’s Monday evening at 7 p.m. and I’m writing this because my plans have been cancelled. I was supposed to listen to Karl, from the hedge fund Amaranth, who was to tell me “everything I always wanted to know about hedge funds but was afraid to ask.” Unfortunately, Karl had to cancel. You see, Karl had a bad day. Earlier today, Karl’s company sent its investors a little note informing them that Amaranth had “experienced significant losses following a dramatic move...
Thousands of years ago our forebears learned how to domesticate staples such as rice, wheat and millet (as well as such less-well-known grains as amaranth and quinoa), which led in turn to cities, civilization and telemarketing. Packed with complex carbohydrates and essential vitamins such as B and E, grains still account for most of the calories consumed in the world...
...AMARANTH More protein than most grains --WILD RICE A marsh grass, native to North America --MILLET Ancient grain used as birdseed...
...creating a beautiful scene. "I saw, on drawing back the tent flaps," she writes, "snowdrifts gleaming on the towering black peaks and, a long way beneath them, a wobbly line of light from the pilgrims' lanterns descending the far hills and inching across the plain." The ice cave at Amaranth lay ahead, offering Siva's boon, "a release from the fear of death, not from death itself...