How the Next Quant Fund Crisis Will Unfold

Markets are vulnerable.

Most everyone knows that this month marks the ten th anniversary of the begin of the fattest financial crisis since the Excellent Depression. There was another significant event back then that gets overlooked but was still very significant. Continue reading

How the Dodge Demon runs a 9.65 quarter mile and a Two.3-second 0-60

Dodge will tell you that the Challenger Hellcat can run an 11.20 ET in the quarter mile, a number that can go as low as Ten.80 with haul radials. But Dodge didn’t build the 707-horsepower Hellcat as a haul car. It built it as an everyday muscle car, and getting its (relatively) skinny 275-millimeter broad tires to meet up even on a rubber-coated dragstrip is indeed hard. Continue reading

How police took $53,000 from a Christian band, an orphanage and a church

The inwards track on Washington politics.

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UPDATE: On Monday afternoon, Muskogee County District Attorney Orvil Loge dropped both the civil and criminal charges against Eh Wah. In an interview with The Washington Post, Loge said “I looked at the case and met with the officers, and determined that we would not be able to meet the cargo of proof in the criminal case and in the civil case.” Loge said a check for the utter amount of money taken from Eh Wah will be mailed to Eh Wah’s lawyers as soon as possible. Continue reading

How does a $Three million car look, sound and drive?

One of the most sensational cars on the market today can go from zero to sixty in less than two and a half seconds.

The Bugatti Chiron can reach up to two hundred sixty one mph and is said to be the fastest production car in the world. Only five hundred models were built worldwide, and half have reportedly already been sold. Continue reading

How Did This Get Made? Maximum Overdrive (An Oral History)

Posted on Friday, September 18th, two thousand fifteen by Blake Harris

Trucks + Sentience – Compelling Narrative = How Did This Get Made.

Nobody sets out to make a bad movie. But the truth is, it happens all the time. Every time it does, there’s a joy misadventure and cautionary tale hiding somewhere behind the scenes. Continue reading

The Fight to Wrap Cheapo Cars in Luxurious Muffle

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A year after he set the world record for holding his breath, he broke it again: twenty four minutes and three seconds. Here’s how bit.ly/2wsVJxq

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