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The year before John Paulson decided, in the spring of 2009, to give investors in his hedge funds the option of having their returns measured and paid in gold, he had made a fortune for himself and his clients by betting on the value of America's housing markets and banks. Now he was betting that an even more basic product than housing — money itse
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“The rationalist utopia is a power trip,”
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In the end, Lee was never charged with spying, and he sued the federal government for unlawfully leaking his name to news organizations. Ultimately the government and several news organizations paid Lee a settlement:
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The mysterious life and death of Intrade’s CEO
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There was no fate worse to him than losing control of what he had built.
Nick Bilton • American Kingpin: Catching the Billion-Dollar Baron of the Dark Web
Longtime Wrexham supporters are certainly delighted by the team’s successes, but they must also recognize that the club has become something new and different: both an athletic behemoth and a pop-culture one. It’s not just that the roster is full of what are effectively ringers, being paid situationally outlandish amounts from what I can’t help ima... See more