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" ... --Belief in the superstition of the Phillips Curve. The Fed clings to the idea that prosperity causes inflation and that inducing unemployment--that is, trying to make millions of people lose their jobs--cures it. And then there's the decade-old mantra of needing to raise the inflation level to get the economy out of its post 2008–09 torpor. Real-world experience has demonstrated the preposterousness of that idea. ... "
" ... Arsenal will, of course, need to bring in new blood to replace the players who are set to leave. And that is the key part of the process this summer. Since the arrival of technical director Edu Gaspar in 2019, Arsenal's transfer business has been hit and miss. This time, he and his team will have to get it right if Arsenal are to break free of their current torpor. ... "
" ... While we humans are busy complaining about the inconvenience of coronavirus quarantine, wild bears in southwest Alaska are preparing for their own kind of isolation—one they must endure every winter. Their annual torpor involves months without food, so they must plump up in the fall to survive their epic fast. The goal is to curl up in their dens at the beginning of the winter as fat as possible. By the time they come out in the spring, a fully grown bear will have lost hundreds of pounds. ... "
" ... “It is about a search, too, for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor,” he wrote. That search informs today’s Unretirement movement to rethink and reimagine the possibilities in the second half of life. ... "
" ... “It is about a search, too, for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor,” wrote Terkel. “To be remembered was the wish, spoken and unspoken, of the heroes and heroines of the book.” As Nora Watson told Terkel during her interview, “I think most of us are looking for a calling, not a job.” ... "