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Trump Opened the Window for the DSA

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By Clifford Asness, Aaron Brown Verified
| The Wall Street Journal Verified
By Clifford Asness and Aaron Brown June 28, 2026 12:33 pm ET The Overton window is the range of views a society treats as acceptable, and it moves over time—sometimes dramatically. Same-sex marriage was outside the window in 2008, when Barack Obama said he opposed it; by now opposition to it may be outside the window. But lately the window hasn’t shifted so much as the wall around it has been blasted away.
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Wrong Numbers and Risk Managers

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By Aaron Brown Verified
| Risk Insights Verified
Back in 1978, David Rockefeller was called before Congress to explain why Chase Manhattan wasn’t lending more to small businesses and minority borrowers. The head of Citibank testified first and gave a clean answer: Our cost of capital is 12%, these loans don’t return that much, so we can’t make them. Rockefeller was impressed. When he got back to New York, he asked his vice presidents what Chase’s return on capital was. They hemmed. They hawed.
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Know Your Customer: Who’s Short Technology Venture Options?

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By Aaron Brown Verified
| Risk Insights Verified
“Who’s short?” is one of the favorite questions asked by risk managers. If traders have a money-making strategy, for example, some person or entity is paying them. Some traders think of the money-supplier as their victim, but this is generally a bad idea. Risk managers prefer to cast that entity as the customer. You want to know your customers, and to serve them better so they will pay you more. You want them to survive and grow, and you want to outcompete others offering a service similar to yours.
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