User:John Shandy`

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Hello, I'm John Shandy`, but you're welcome to call me Shandy for short. My areas of interest are: international finance, development economics, international development, international relations, geopolitics, risk management, astronomy, and secular humanism. I enjoy meeting new people from around the world and sharing culture. I am a natural born skeptic, but an eager and optimistic problem solver. If there's anything else you might like to know, just ask. :)

Significant contributions

 * Covered interest arbitrage
 * Foreign exchange risk
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 * International finance
 * International Fisher effect
 * Mexican peso crisis
 * Triangular arbitrage
 * Uncovered interest arbitrage
 * Virgin cleansing myth
 * World Bank Group
 * World Bank
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 * International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes Symbol support vote.svg
 * Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency Symbol support vote.svg

Images

 * Images created or uploaded on commons
 * Images uploaded locally for fair use

Notes

 * How to create graphs for Wikipedia articles
 * How to draw a diagram with Inkscape
 * Displaying a formula
 * Upload a file of your own work to Wikimedia Commons

Quotes
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."

- Voltaire

"A man's dreams are an index to his greatness."

- Zadok Rabinowitz

"Once we overcome our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome universe that utterly dwarfs - in time, in space, and in potential - the tidy anthropocentric proscenium of our ancestors."

- Carl Sagan

"Life is sacred, that is to say it is the supreme value to which all other values are subordinate."

- Albert Einstein

"Every one of us is precious in the cosmic perspective. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another."

- Carl Sagan

"The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle."

- Anais Nin

"I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place."

- Anne Tyler