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Market bubbles are not obvious when they are occurring. Even former U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan says he's unable to tell for sure when exuberance becomes irrational. While being questioned before Congress a couple of years ago about the 2000 tech-stock meltdown, Greenspan famously said: "As events evolved, we recognized that, despite our suspicions, it was very difficult to definitively identify a bubble until after the fact - that is, when its bursting confirmed its existence...
...home at 2 for lunch," he said, recalling the roast-centered family meals when he was a boy back in Scotland. "You never missed it, or you were in serious trouble. It's how I went through my early years of childhood." Still, he resisted the obvious Proustian implications and stuck to the argument that while a civilian foodie would compile an elaborate, complicated meal, a chef appreciates the perfection in simplicity--a sentiment shared by Florence, a Food Network host. "One of the most brilliant meals I've ever had was at Il Cibreo in Florence. Or real authentic...
...freedom in Cuba and merging those ideas with the arts,” Counter said. Garcia’s family fled Cuba when he was 5 years old, just two years after Fidel Castro came to power. The actor’s emotional attachment to the island was obvious at the reception following the screening. “I would change everything about who I am to live in a free Cuba,” he told the crowd, holding back tears. In an introduction to the screening, Garcia called “The Lost City,” which...
...pass, saying, "I admire General Sanchez's service to the country." But then he said, "The situation on the ground has changed quite dramatically since he left Iraq." If you wanted to be generous, you could read that as meaning Sanchez' criticisms are out of date. But the other obvious meaning is, "Things have gotten a lot better now that he's no longer in charge...
That Russian President Vladimir Putin is hopping mad with Washington has been obvious for some time now. In a speech in Munich last July, he lambasted the U.S. for its "unilateral and frequently illegitimate actions," claiming that "the United States has overstepped its national borders in every way" and slamming its "greater and greater disdain" for international law. Enraged by U.S. moves to station a missile defense system on his doorstep, Putin withdrew Russia from a Cold War-era treaty governing the size of conventional military forces in Europe, and ordered its old turbo-prop Bear bombers out of mothballs...