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...market. With the standard playbook and tools like the Taylor Rule less relevant to the immediate challenges at hand, central bankers are finding themselves looking at stock and bond markets to help them decide what to do. The markets in turn are looking back at central banks, trying to guess how monetary policy will affect asset prices. It reminds us of the early Ozzy Osbourne lyrics: "You, looking at me, looking at you .../ I know you know I know...
...sunset going onbehind the storm. The house may survivethis tempest, but no such luck forStephen King’s name, written in a shinytypeface—it seems to be sinking into theocean. So we know there’s a storm and anisland—I guess the mystery lies with theorange picnic basket that somehow alsosurvives the storm.Memory, by Philippe GrimbertA black and white photograph depictsa mystery person, pail in hand, walkingaway from the potential reader over acovered bridge towards a sunny day. Thebook’s cover offers extensive metaphoricalpossibilities: the light at the end ofthe tunnel...
...angriestof the 12 angry men. I kind of hold agrudge against the kid who’s on trial becauseof a relationship with my son that’sgone rotten.RR: What’s your angriest line in theplay?JW: Well, I threaten to kill the eighthjuror. I guess that’s maybe my angriestline: “I’ll kill you.”RR: What’s the angriest you’ve beenin recent memory?JW: That’s a good question. I don’tthink of myself as an angry...
...looking women in aviators and boots who perform jerky dance moves between close-ups on Santogold’s hardened features. It seems that this could go on forever, until an explosion of some sort occurs and the video grows ever stranger as the theme turns to violence. My guess would be that Santogold is parodying pervasive violent imagery by using gross fluids and substances to pose as innards, but there is really no way to know as the video is so visually bizarre that it’s difficult to think about its message. As Santogold walks down...
After all, wasn’t Bill Clinton one of the most enduring public figures of our time? After the Bush administration, wasn’t he vindicated? Considering that the ex-president is locked away in the bunker usually reserved for Dick Cheney, I guess everything has an expiration date...