Hammer Labs HL-IDX-002 1 ENTRY

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  1. JUL 30, 2026

    Same Rule, Opposite Signs

    Banking ran our definition-change test for us, better documented than we could have managed, and the answer was not the one anybody expects. On one day in January 2020 a single accounting rule moved reserves up at three banks and down at a fourth, and up and down inside the same bank. That gives a coherence test costing one group-by, and it also breaks a category we had been treating as one thing.