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William Vourlas

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The Market is Always Right

Weekly Contest #94

I am a trader. Not like some antiquated Dutch tulip dealer, although that market is pretty cool and my knowledge of it even helped me score points with my old game theory professor at Yale. No, I trade futures, and the futures are...well...in the future. Gee, no kidding I hear you saying. Yes, I say, and futures contracts have been around for a long, long time...Japanese rice merchants figured out back in the 16th century that a farmer and a rice wholesaler or trader did not want prices to be fixed over time, and in fact prices could not b...

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Silence and Punishment

Weekly Contest #79

"I am here to act as mediator between you and your brother Peter." Thus spoke Father Andrew, a man I barely knew, from a religious sect my family left years ago. Not to suggest that Greek Orthodoxy is some sort of cult, but it is definitely not as mainstream as it once was, having been the institution of Christian survival from, say, 300CE to 1400CE. Prevailing over Islam, Turks, Ottomans and the plague over a thousand plus years was no mean feat. I have struggled with guilt and shame my whole life on many levels, so when it came to reli...

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Reflections on Hemingway's short story, "A Way You'll Never Be".

Weekly Contest #5

Mr. Patterson glowered and yet also glinted at us.Us, the bright shiny faces of his English Lit class at Wayland Academy. It is winter, 1976 in the Kettle Moraine country of central Wisconsin. My hair is frozen, having showered late and trudged across the ice snow to a distant classroom. I anticipate drama."Pitter Pat" always had a flair for the dramatic, and today's lecture was no different. Our teacher knew his craft, understood how to create a stage for setting a story. His brief scholarly time could be mesmerizing or droll, depending on ...

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