as "the best job I’ve done." Unlike most historical works it bubbles with the author’s laughter. In his foreword, after thanking two former colleagues for checking the manuscript, he added that any errors which remained obviously must be theirs. "Acknowledging these debts," he concluded, ...
“And despite the historical roots of Conegliano Valdobbiadene and the quality of its hillside territory, we haven’t had the courage to clearly claim its roots and uniqueness.” To counter the narrative, higher-end producers are drawing in new drinkers by telling stories about the land. Other ...
you know where the ren zhong, the philtrum had not occurred. So you know, so that’s not mere vanity, to have it stuck together, stitched together in a surgical operation. And so that is very, very important, as well. [8:02] So there you are, you see. Paré puts forth these ...
One implication of my hypothesis is that in most other countries the housing crash should have occurred later than in the US, and should have been far milder.The Economist, which ironically is the publication that I most strongly disagree with on this issue, haspublished a graphthat strongly ...
Fiat money is tender not backed by a tangible asset or commodity like gold. It’s usually mandated by governments & leads to corrosive effects on society.
Optical mark recognition (OMR):For identifying checked boxes andother marks, such as bubbles in surveys or a signature on a form, plus logos, symbols and watermarks. All can be identified by matching to stored images, as with simple OCR. ...
the other introspective, both desperately stuck in an existential malaise - whose lives come rapidly undone when one decides he’s had enough of the other. Ostensibly a chamber piece set within the fictitious isle of Inisherin in 1923 (the Irish Civil War close to mind, consciously absent from...
Working in the other direction is the argument that if a predictable process of debt restructuring is in place, the risk of contagion will be less since all parties will be forewarned of its imminence and have time to pre- pare. Even in instances of sharp changes in market sentiment, ...
Asset price bubbles occur when prices for a particular asset rise far above the item's real value. Historical examples of asset bubbles include houses, internet stocks, gold, and even tulip bulbs and baseball cards. Sooner or later, the high prices become unsustainable and they fall dramatically...
Because market actors are human beings, markets as an aggregate of human choice can displayherding behaviorand other irrational tendencies such aspanic sellingandirrational exuberancethat leads to asset pricebubbles. By acknowledging the existence of market psychology, we can understand thatmarkets are no...