.Jim Carroll Cboe launching options on VIX futures. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… Finally. Picking up the torch you've been carrying for years.😅

.Sabrina Lam

.Behind The Bastards .Robert Evans (The Only Robert Evans) pod of the future: Ivy Lee, father of modern PR, had IG Farben as his biggest client in the 1930s. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_Lee?w…

$VA Variance Futures coming soon to a screen near you

.Jim Carroll What would you call this VIX term structure?

.Car Dealership Guy - How common is it for used dealers to borrow cars from auctions, as this Mass fraudster did? boston.com/news/crime/202…

.Michael Green This chart, via Callie Cox, caught my eye - note how the extreme days (blue bars) are mostly much higher than the small return days for SPY v. TLT: Could that be due to the kinked beta relationship?

.Jim Carroll Study: Global FOMO reducing vol by ~2% papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

🧵1/ I wonder how many people realise that what's really going on with stablecoins is a massive US statecraft play to re-dollarize the world on its own terms. You could even call it a "re-stablization op" (yep - there's a gag in there).

.Joe Weisenthal: The House passed Jones Act II, forcing components of transportation projects to be shipped on American carriers: freightwaves.com/news/lawmakers…

.Jim Carroll New paper claims 1.0 Sharpe from capturing volatility risk premium, adding contango slope and sizing based on level. ssrn.com/abstract=53164…

.Tracy Alloway is running with a pretty rarefied crowd: buttondown.com/perfectsentenc… A perfect sentence about pet rocks, crude and feral cats.

.Michael Green the sudden appearance of 3mm native-born 16-19 y.o.s is going to monkey with BLS stats for awhile ft.com/content/dfd864…

.Adam Gaffin State Street T station exit at Old South Church closed off at 100’ radius with police tape. Suspicious object.