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That brings us to lesson No. 2. In the early 1930s, powerful voices at the Treasury and Federal Reserve argued that the deep pain of financial crisis was a necessary economic corrective. "Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers, liquidate real estate," Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon advised President Herbert Hoover...
While not an official medical term, drunkorexia refers to the combination of alcohol abuse and anorexia or bulimia—a medical condition that researchers and therapists say is becoming increasingly prevalent, especially among female college students. (It joins an already absurd eating disorder lexicon that includes words such as...
Beyond digital culture, environmental concerns have helped color the dictionary green. Craggers (members of carbon reduction action groups) now have terms to describe their colleagues in the environmental movement. They probably know more than one ecotarian (a person who only eats food that has been produced in an environmentally friendly...
The aim is to purge the asset markets of speculators, which is clearly working given the deflation of the stocks bubble in Shanghai. The danger is that policymakers may tighten too much, discouraging not only speculation but also business growth and consumer spending, which could precipitate a hard landing for...
The same day, reports trickled out that, following Ahmadinejad's dismissal of the Intelligence Minister late last month, as many as 20 officials in the ministry who disapproved of the public airing of confessions by political dissidents were purged, including the deputy minister and chief of counterintelligence. The move, according...