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— W. H. Auden"A poem is a verbal artifact which must be as skillfully and solidly constructed as a table or a motorcycle."
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One of the dirty little secrets of the stock market rally is that the rising corporate profits that powered it are largely phantom profits. They are artifacts of currency devaluation, not an increase in efficiency or production of goods and services.
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