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...problem with excessive monetary and debt growth is that it always leads to inflation in one sector of the economy or another. In the 1960s we had wage inflation, in the 1970s consumer price inflation, and now we are in the throes of breakneck asset inflation. But every type of inflation eventually ends. And when assets deflate, economic activity will suffer. Business slows, lenders call in their debts, companies go bankrupt-all of which is bad news for stocks, especially those that are priced as if risk no longer existed. Economic history is littered with periods of asset inflation that...
...prop from the Get Smart set but rather a covert Soviet listening device that dates to the 1960s. Planted in the heel of a target's shoe, it could monitor conversations...
...those who thought they knew his type, Hu has placed himself at the forefront of China's new assertiveness. Hu, 64, has never studied outside China and is steeped in the ways of the Communist Party. He became a party member as a university student in the early 1960s and headed the Communist Youth League in the poor western province of Gansu before becoming provincial party chief in Guizhou and later Tibet. Despite a public stiffness in front of foreigners, Hu has been a vigorous ambassador for China: the pattern was set in 2004, when Hu spent two weeks...
...1960s, American music producer Phil Spector became famous for a musical style that used multiple overdubs, lavish instrumentation and maximum reverb. Spector wanted to hit listeners with an incredibly dense, almost overwhelming collage of music. He called the effect a "wall of sound." I have no evidence for this, but I suspect the musical genius may have been struck by inspiration after visiting South Asia...
Twiggy A pubescent-like body won her fame in 1960s London, but with a stick-thin BMI of 14.7, she would be out of a job in Milan these days...