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Black-Gold Blues - The Hazards and Horrors of the Makeshift Oil Industry in Rebel-Held Syria
For four decades, the al-Assad regime (first run by Hafez, and now by his son Bashar) struck deals with Western oil companies like Shell and Total that resulted in the extraction of as much as 27,000 barrels of black gold from the sand every day.
Did Robotraders Know the Financial Crisis Was Coming?
THE INVISIBLE ALGORITHMIC ECOLOGY OF THE STOCK MARKET
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Did Robotraders Know the Financial Crisis Was Coming?
Commodities markets the world over have been hijacked by robots or, more specifically, algorithms that can scan data and trade stocks so quickly that their meat-brained creators often can’t keep up with what they’re doing.
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