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...about leverage. This is the case for crises in the past and will be the case for crises in the future. A world in which highly leveraged hedge funds share similar strategies makes it inevitable that what we are seeing now will occur again. And the more complex the strategies, the more surprising the linkages that will emerge...
...phone to retrieve data, says Sgt. Michael Harrington, a detective with the Michigan State police. Another tool, as anyone who has watched the nightly cable crime news shows knows, is "pinging" a phone to search for its location, helpful in missing-persons cases and in tracking suspects. A more complex forensic approach now available utilizes a command system developed in the late 1970s to initialize modems to ask the phone specific questions about the information it may be storing. Those commands, known as AT, were one of the tools 17-year-old hacker George Hotz used to unlock his iPhone...
...defaulting on their mortgages. But that meant trouble for more than just the mortgage company or the bank that made the loan originally. Since the 1980s, individual mortgages have been packaged into bundles (so-called mortgage-backed securities) and resold to investors. Soon after came so-called derivatives, exceedingly complex investments that often trade based on the relationship between two or more underlying markets - mortgage-backed securities, say, and 10-year Treasurys. These products have been sold and resold literally the world over, and it's no surprise why: in an era of low inflation, low interest rates and strong...
...meeting attendees favorably discussed an alternate route—one that would not necessitate the use of city streets at all—for the trucks to take soil away when the contractors will begin to dig the foundation for the science complex...
...Mass Pike, over a pair of overpasses and under an abandoned tunnel,” said Harry Mattison, a member of the task force. “If you could physically connect that to the Mass Pike, then you’ll have direct access to the Science Complex...