The Many Euphemisms for Money Creation
Since the outbreak of the so-called international-credit-market crisis, euphemisms have risen to great prominence. This holds true in particular for monetary-policy experts, who are at great pains to disguise what they are doing.
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The tangled web
It’s not clear to me why Rick Lax’s new book, Fool Me Once: Hustlers, Hookers, Headliners, and How Not to Get Screwed in Vegas, exists. It’s a shaggy dog of a book: part memoir, part journalism, part socio-psychological term paper. In short, it’s all over the place.
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Addicts off streets and to professionals
I’m sure I could have fun pointing out to Mr. Lelond (’Bible illiterates’ make a difference, Times, Jan. 7) and his fellow believers the errors in their thinking but even just saying that, I’m actually pointing out their major character flaw which is simply that they don’t think.
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