Monday, October 27, 2008

Things Fall Apart

According to Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman, the global economy continues to spin apart:

Economic data rarely inspire poetic thoughts. But as I was contemplating the latest set of numbers, I realized that I had William Butler Yeats running through my head: “Turning and turning in the widening gyre / The falcon cannot hear the falconer; / Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.”

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