Call My Bluf
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per:v. a) to gradually decrease, as in action or forceb) to grow gradually lean"Committee — a group of men who keep minutes andwaste hours." –
Milton Berle
"Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were ayear ago." –
Bernard Berenson
"If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere wellIt were done quickly." –
William Shakespeare, Macbeth: Act I, Scene VII
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THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GO
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A walk around the fringes of nance
By Grant Williams
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Contents
Another Shameful Day for Europe as EMU Creditor States Betray South .....................21Harvard’s Grumpy Ferguson Says World Is Going to Hell ........................................22A Million Engineers in India Struggling to Get Placed in an Extremely Challenging Market 24Wobbling Along .........................................................................................25"You F—Ked Up, You Trusted Us": Talking Ratings Agencies with Chris Hayes .................26EU Bank Bail-Out Talks Deadlocked Over Saver Protection .....................................28The Fed's Exit Strategy ...............................................................................29Snowden Spy Row Grows as US Is Accused of Hacking China ...................................30The Rise of the Fearmongers: Germany's New Euroskeptic Elite ..............................32Letter from Nicosia: Cyprus Says It Needs More Help from EU .................................33
Buybacks, dividends, and M&A ......................................................................35Greg Weldon turns ....................................................................................36Fixed-Income Party Is Over — For Now .............................................................37
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(Wikipedia):
Call My Bluf
was a long-running British game show between two teamsof three celebrity contestants. The point of the game is for the teams to take it in
turn to provide three denitions of an obscure word, only one of which is correct.The other team then has to guess which is the correct denition, the other twobeing "blus".
Among the rst things we learn in school are the rules of grammar — the building blocks of
proper communication which underpin the English language.
Among the rst things we forget when we leave school are the rules of grammar — the
infuriating and extremely irritating rules rendered completely unnecessary in a world in whichtexting seems to be the most popular form of communication and where most sentiments canbe adequately conveyed by acronyms, abbreviations, and the ubiquitous emoticon.
Source: Explosm.net
It's amusing therefore to watch as "the market" (a collective expression of the grammaticalcompetence of billions around the world) tries to dissect every utterance made by the likesof the Federal Open Market Committee, which itself spends an inordinate amount of time
structuring its prose so as to convey, via the most intricate inection imaginable, exactly what
it intends to do.
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