Day-to-day short-term movements in gold tend to be driven by speculators in the futures market, and they tend to be driven by the frequent inverse correlation to the U.S. dollar, he said.

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To help it avoid charges of suppressing the emergence of methods that may prove better than its favoured ones, the government should look to one particular principle, outlined in its education white paper of autumn 1997: that intervention in schools should be in inverse proportion to their success.

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This story seems to me to be almost the inverse of the much more disturbing tale of Violentacrez, the Reddit uber-troll who was outed by Adrian Chen on Gawker last week.

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Economists such as Mitchell Polinsky, of Stanford Law School, and Steven Shavell, of Harvard Law School, argue that to deter harmful conduct, punitive damages should be equivalent to the amount of harm caused, multiplied by the inverse of the probability of detection.

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Whether you begin playing around with the VXX or its corollary, the VelocityShares Daily Inverse FIX Short-Term Futures ETN (NYSE: XIV), there may be something to getting into this market while the getting is good.

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From coverage of commodity-based and inverse ETFs to Jim Lowell's ranking of the best and worst, you'll be better prepared to make intelligent investment decisions with your money.

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Then we have the inverse snobbery, the one that praises popularity and disdains quality, where the book ceases to be literature and becomes simply a cultural artefact over which people bond, either in love or hatred.

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Clint Eastwood is back doing what he's supposed to be doing in "Trouble With the Curve, " a sentimental baseball saga that is the inverse of "Moneyball" in almost every respect and shows the star's still got what it takes to carry a movie home.

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