Jerry Bowyer writes on the TCS Daily web site about reading business news in the same way one should read plays by William Shakespeare.
“Your right column is for sentences with words like ‘worries’, ‘concerns’, ‘expectations’ or ‘believes’. Unattributed quotes go on the right, as do short quotes. Opinion polls go on the right. This includes opinion polls masquerading as economic stats like consumer confidence, or business confidence. Elections and futures markets, however, go on the left. ‘Sub-prime jitters’ is a left column thing.
“Now step back and compare your two columns. The first column is a glimpse, however incomplete, of the world as it is. The second is a glimpse, no matter how distorted, of the world as people perceive it.”
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