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This article title from WSJ’s Market Watch has me intrigued: Fed statement likely to be fuzzy How to be hawkish but not too hawkish To which I would like to cite Dr Suess in return “That mind of yours,” I heard him say “is frightfully ga-flupped. Your mind is murky-mooshy! Will you make it up? […]

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When I was first househunting in Tokyo, the realtor showed me a very nice apartment. He told me that I had to see because even though the square footage was significantly less than others in the price range (about 20% less) and the price was significantly more (also about 20% but negot.) I “had” to […]

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“More tourism, more deterioration. More visitors, more loss,” said Susana Nahoe, an archaeologist who was a liaison between Chile’s National Tourism Service and the island’s scientific community before leaving the post two years ago, citing “differences in values.” “We are at the point now where, either we protect what we have or we lose it,” […]

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According to this report, our personality shifts as we switch languages. Interesting idea.  But how much of  that  relates to the cultural mores and definitions of how people relate to one another? Learning a language can teach you A-ha there is more than one way to think. And that is because you have to form […]

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