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The Texas hedge.

There are some real cowboys out there. “In livestock trading, the Texas hedge typically refers derisively to Texan cattle ranchers who might buy cattle futures contracts while already owning cattle, thereby doubling their risk exposure.” ~ learn more

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ChatGPT makes fishing content.

Premium stuff! “Regardless of his knowledge, Adam, like every angler knows that sometimes you just don’t catch anything. After getting “skunked” while out for halibut a few times, he turned to an unlikely source for advice, ChatGPT. Adam had used […]

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Dutch uncle.

I watched an old video where Leo Burnett used this term and had to look it up. “Dutch uncle is an informal term for a person who issues frank, harsh or severe comments and criticism to educate, encourage or admonish […]

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The invisible electrostatic wall at 3M adhesive tape plant.

“David Swenson of 3M Corporation describes an anomaly where workers encountered a strange “invisible wall” in the area under a fast-moving sheet of electrically charged polypropelene film in a factory. This “invisible wall” was strong enough to prevent humans from […]