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<br>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br><a href="http://www.japaninc.com/Certain_Kinds_of_Trading">Is something wrong with certain kinds of trading?</a><br>
<br>By Cassandra<br><br>Beautiful as France is, it's ski resorts are filled with pesky, queue-barging <br>coquins with all their attendant bad manners, trampling upon one's skiis, <br>and mayhem creation. It cannot help royally tick one off after civic-mindedly <br>
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by pelicans, boobies or other more industrious birds.<br><br>What is their common thread? For one, they are reasonable analogies for a <br>flavour of low-latency, high-frequency, order-sniffing, front-running strategies <br>
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<br><a href="http://www.japaninc.com/a_problem_like_the_freeters">The bigger picture</a><br><br>How do you solve a problem like the freeters?<br><br>By Tobias Harris<br><br>One policy area that could see cooperation between a DPJ-led<br>
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in manufacturing work, making an exception only for "specialized work." <br>The DPJ's position is a bit more vague...<br><br>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>
<a href="http://www.japaninc.com/The_Asian_Rush"><br>The Asian rush to lock up global food sources</a><br><br>By the Mad Hedge Fund Trader<br><br>Fortune magazine ran an excellent article about the flood of institutional <br>
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