Everybody struggles now to find guideposts in the thicket of new economic information. Two old ideas may help:
- First, the time-sense of humanity is more calibrated to getting the bear out of the cave than musing about why bears like caves.
- Second, a version of frog in hot water -- we tend not to notice the gradual onset of lunacy, grasping the insanity only in retrospect.
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Europe's economic 'charade' may be exhausted
Commentary: Bad news in Europe underlies week's Wall Street rise
By Lou Barnes, Friday, December 2, 2011.Inman News®
Everybody struggles now to find guideposts in the thicket of new economic information. Two old ideas may help:
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