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At the top of the escalator, the phat lady made a sharp left into a silky hedge of Liz Claiborne blouses to confer with a salesclerk.
After 1995, the United States tried to hedge its bets, providing $26 million of United States Agency for International Development money to Indonesian nongovernmental organizations involved in grass-roots organizing.
A piece warns that Wall Street's blue-chip firms may be just as unstable as the infamous hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management.
In the international arena, Tiger and a few other funds became the key conduit, via the carry trade, for the export of capital from Japan--that is, hedge funds came to play a central role in the exchange of yen for dollars.
Essentially, the hedge fund took huge bets with borrowed money--although its capital base was only a couple of billion dollars, we now know that it had placed wagers directly or indirectly on the prices of more than a trillion dollars' worth of assets.