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Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

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If you’ve read more than, say, a quarter of one of my essays, you likely know I was part of the Air Force Academy’s Department of Political Science for a number of years (a total of 17 to be precise, ...