Industrial patterns

Oil is going up. We'll see more Brazilian students this summer.

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In factual narrative, history tends to be written by the winners, who feed reports of victorious campaigns to their chroniclers. In fiction the story lives the more everyone comes to life, the more each character seems to exist in his or her own right.

--- Brian Boyd, ibid.

Once in a while, it's useful to replace the term "objective" with "factual narrative." R.Shiller has been doing a lot of it lately.

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The society needs a compelling TV show about трамповата; a new Gone with the Wind. It should appeal to audiences beyond Roseanne.

Nothing personal

Giuliani is told to go fuck himself:

Rudy Giuliani ... resigned from his law firm on Thursday, citing the “pressing demands” of the special counsel probe.

Richard Rosenbaum, executive chairman of Greenberg Traurig, said Mr. Giuliani had resigned “after recognizing that this work is all consuming and is lasting longer than initially anticipated.” Mr. Rosenbaum said the former New York City mayor’s intent had initially been “to play a limited role, for a short period of time, to address specific matters for President Trump.”

https://www.wsj.com/articles/rudy-giuliani-quits-law-firm-citing-demands-of-mueller-probe-1525971107

Dilemma of the day: how not be eaten in a locked cave.

On the one hand:

Killing a deadly sleeping enemy who intends to eat you and your men, one by one or two by two: how could that be a wrong move?

On the other hand:

But in this case it is. Odysseus stops, thinks, and after hours of brooding devises a multipart plan based on what lies at hand in the cave.

--- Brian Boyd, ibid