To Mr Shimpi, this outcome is absurd, the result of an arbitrary wall that has historically separated finance directors, who deal with debt and equity, from risk managers, who deal with hedging and insurance.

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Claptrap breaks the fourth wall with gusto, assigning absurd MMO-styled instructions (collect brown rocks, then defeat a high-level monster, find a lost staff, bring him the head of the Destroyer of Worlds and then dance for his amusement) to complete a quest which, it turns out, can be finished by clicking on a door six feet away.

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ETFs make it so easy to track a market, or a narrow sliver of it, that Wall Street has taken tracking to absurd lengths.

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The latter in mind, today's media consensus suggesting Wall Street welcomes cheap and easy money will remain one of those unproven and absurd assumptions.

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