从第四段二、三句话 (By the early 1860s these wildcatters were drilling for “black gold” all over western Pennsylvania. The boom rivaled the California gold rush of 1848 in its excitement and Wild West atmosphere.)可知:作者提到加利福尼亚淘金热,目的是说明石油勘探者们在19世纪60年代那种寻找“...
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No one is in charge of college football. Not the NCAA, which was created to literally keep players from killing each other, then expanded itself to run a lucrative basketball tournament and ensure players don't make money, and is now looking at a long-term future in which the big schools...
Question: Central bankers are reluctant to try to pop alleged bubbles. Which topics covered in this chapter might explain why they are reluctant to do so? Economic Bubble: An economic bubble develops when the value of financial instruments ...
to return to California, but from a resident at home and in her element. When she sings of hanging “on the stoop with the neighborhood kids,” of that seasonal juncture when “summer fades away — nothing gold can stay,” it’s easy to imagine palm trees silhouetting the Pacific sunset...