"Liberal rationality is threatened by the pervasive loss of faith in the neutral principles of science, fact, expertise and reason itself," argues writer James Traub #OpenFuture
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"Financial markets expect a generally healthier domestic and international economy under a President Clinton than under a President Trump," a study concludes
"The Innovation Illusion", a new contender for the most gloom-laden book on the modern economy, argues that aside from a handful of stars such as Google and Amazon, the engine of capitalist growth is kaput
Yahoo nears Google search deal; Icahn’s plan goes kaput
ZDNet - USA
Yahoo is reportedly near a search deal with Google and plans an unrelated reorganization. Meanwhile, Microsoft says it’s no longer interested in Yahoo at ...
Long way from being bad means it's not bad (yet): this situation would need to get a lot worse to become bad.
kaput
adjective [after verb] INFORMAL
broken; not working correctly:
The radio's kaput.
capitation (kap-i-TAY-shuhn)
noun
1. A counting of heads.
2. A uniform tax assessed by the head; a poll tax.
3. A fee extracted from each student.
Etymology
From Late Latin capitation- (poll tax), from caput (head). Ultimately from Indo-European root kaput- (head), also the origin of head, captain, chef, chapter, cadet, cattle, chattel, achieve, biceps, and mischief, (but not of kaput)
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