Many years ago, we were on a bus following the gold rush trail in Alaska. As we pulled into the first rest stop, we saw a man chasing a departing bus yelling and waving his arms. Our bus driver came on the PA and asked “What do you call someone who is 5 minutes late for the bus?” Answer : A hitch hiker. No one was ever getting back to the bus on that trip!
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“There is no such thing as a normal period of history. Normality is a fiction of economic textbooks.”
— Joan Robinson, “Contributions to Modern Economics” (1978)
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