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Prices as virtuous

…to the bust. It wasn’t just housing; the negative personal savings rate and the widening trade deficit with China were red flags. Third is the through-the-looking glass logic: “Well, it…

Transparency Liquidity

…the metaphors literally, and look at an old analog thermometer. You will find that mercury is liquid but not transparent and glass is transparent but not liquid. Serious discussion after…

This is What a Giant Vampire Squid Looks Like

…then, the college-educated couple had been reduced to shopping for canned goods at flea markets and selling used ceramic glass. But it required a judge who is more sane than…