Over the past decade or so, the city has been monetised as a futures market — not only in the old fashioned manner of property development and speculation but through reconceiving its inhabitants as consumers rather than citizens.
Liu Simin, vice-president of the tourism branch of the China Society for Futures Studies, said the blacklist may not work as effectively in practice as it was envisioned to do.
Depending on how successful Mrs May is, the City could face three different futures.
" In contrast, Mrs Clinton's campaign has hired recognised policy experts, including economics adviser Gary Gensler, the former chairman of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
They can't replicate creativity; recombining higher-level abstractions and imagining futures based on very little information or example.
But the impact of any price rise may come quicker through the futures market.
Chan said that she recognized the role that teachers could play in shaping students' futures.
Shanghai steel futures have risen more than 50 per cent this year and more than a fifth this month.
" Commodity pricing is increasingly moving to China, as trading has expanded in its domestic futures contracts.
The most-traded steel futures rose 3.
The futures of billions of people will depend on whether this reversal of the trend towards convergence proves to be a blip, or whether it is instead the strong showing of emerging countries during the 2000-2014 period that ultimately turns out to have been anomalous.
" Interest rate futures indicate that investors are still discounting the chances of the Federal Reserve lifting interest rates another four times this year as planned, despite the unexpectedly strong unemployment data released on Friday.
Our fates and futures are our design, but sometimes things throw us off our intended course.
For more on the Chinese stock market, we're joined on the line by Gao Shang, analyst with Guantong Futures.
At the Global Futures 2045 International Congress in New York last year, Mr Kurzweil claimed that the biological parts of our body will be replaced with mechanical parts and this could happen as early as 2100.
We are also thinking of farmers in drought whose futures and homes depend on good rains.
Our small dead-certain income increases all the time; and as to futures, I have not made a mistake yet--they are piling up by the thousands and tens of thousands.
"The tunnel has been built and the train needs to go through it, " Ashley Alder, chief executive of the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission, said at a Thomson Reuters regulatory conference in Hong Kong.
Entrepreneurs are more optimistic about their futures than other workers, according to an earlier Gallup analysis of the Well-Being Index conducted last fall and optimism is correlated with good health in some studies.
A genetic legacy of self-confidence merely opens up many possible futures.