She found her hands crushed under the coiled cords and she poked her fingers between two, watching them grow red and then purple as overripe vineberries.

Given this backdrop and these fears, “tail risk” hedging, or protecting investment portfolios against extreme negative moves in the market, has been a frequent topic of conversation among market participants.

The soil of Cyprus is for the most part rocky; there are in it many entire hills of talc or gypse […]

and if it lye in my power I will requite yt as a martiall man ought to doe (which is) with the repaying of his money and a myllion of thankes besides; but trosting not altogether unto hym, I desyre youre favorabell faver this ones to accomplysh my desyres that I may not be one of the basest that fowlose his Lo;