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As the war settled into an uneasy stalemate in 1951, USAF F-86s established a barcap (barrier combat air patrol) along the Yalu River to prevent communist MiG-15s flown variously by Soviet, Chinese, and North Korean pilots from attacking U.N. forces.
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greensox barcap relied on the support for the capital markets which was being driven by the printing of money, the backing of the bad banks etc etc and that is why the fixed income areas are now making huge profits, that and the fact that volatility is so high
The Guardian World News Jill Treanor 2011
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