Buy-out executives themselves admit that performance will be more ordinary in future, since debt, which powered private-equity firms' profits, won't quickly return to pre-crisis levels.
While derivatives appear complex, with hundreds of pages of documentation, many use standardized contracts similar to those behind ordinary stock futures.
In practice this means that in future ordinary defendants, like Peter Wilmshurst, Hardeep Singh and Heather Brooke will also be unable to get support for legal action taken against them, often by large institutions with deep pockets trying to silence them.
Yet by filing it, you convert what would be future ordinary income into capital gain.
Years on, Gilead still makes me hopeful by reminding me of the possibilities in my future, as ordinary and small as it may turn out to be.
The future of ordinary families, especially poor working families, depends a great deal on how the government decides to react to this new economy.
If he wins in November, the first and largest items on his agenda will be to safeguard the economic future of ordinary Americans while extricating the United States from its military adventure in Iraq.
He ends the letter urging voters to "put all of your mind and all of your muscle into supporting someone who offers a future that ordinary people could actually live in … It is time for this horrific and inhuman nonsense to stop, and if you're going to vote then I suggest you vote for someone who looks willing to stop it".
Kim had tried to ward off ordinary thoughts of the future, she wrote to a friend, Kailey Burger, but sometimes they would creep in anyway, like when she found herself thinking "I'm gonna get one of those fridges with the freezer drawer on the bottom when I'm a real adult".
In actuality, the most crucial choices about the future of ordinary voters and their children are probably made not by Brussels bureaucrats or Washington lobbyists but by engineers, entrepreneurs, and scientists who are hardly aware of the implications of their decisions, and who certainly don't represent anyone.
