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Gas producers choked back output and slashed their drilling plans last year in response to low prices, but they have become so efficient that overall production levels barely budged from their record-setting course.

Citing someone she said was close to the case, Kelly said that she had previously been under the impression that Epstein “was into the barely legal type.”

Implied volatility — the VIX complex of indicators — has remained bullish, but just barely.

They said that their daily lives had barely changed since the mega-operation, describing seeing armed men roaming the community the very next day, even as the bodies of those killed were still being removed.

This top-heaviness is very much in evidence in the stock market, where many companies are barely profitable and many others are losing money.