Last night, I finally asked one of my dinner companions what she thought of Palin, apologizing as I asked, because I assumed it was a question that Alaskans must find wearisome, the way Angelenos tire of being asked about traffic.
Bernanke paused, then, with the smile of a man who knows the congressional game at last, asked: I … is there a question?
We compute daily log returns from the last mid-quotes before the closing auction: begin{aligned} R_{i,t},=,log left( frac{text{ask}_{i,t},+,text{bid}_{i,t}}{text{ask}_{i,t,-,1},+ text{bid}_{i,t,-,1}}right), end{aligned} (1 where (text{ask}_{i,t}) is the last ask quote for stock i before the closing auction of day t and (text{bid}_{i,t}) the corresponding bid quote.
We compute daily log returns from the last mid-quotes before the closing auction: begin{aligned} R_{i,t}=log left( frac{{text {ask}}_{i,t}+{text {bid}}_{i,t}}{{text {ask}}_{i,t-1}+{ text {bid}}_{i,t-1}}right), end{aligned} (2 where ({text {ask}}_{i,t}ldots) is the last ask quote for stock i before the closing auction of day t and ({text {bid}}_{i,t}ldots) is the corresponding bid quote.
"How long did that last?" I asked.
Will hygge last, I asked her? Will it be more than a flash in the plan?
The word nagged at me all day, until at last I asked an Egyptian colleague to watch Stewart's broadcast carefully and see if he noticed anything I was missing.
"How long does this game last?" I asked him.
The week before last, I asked my long-time girlfriend to marry me.
