When they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook out his clothing and said to them, Your blood be on your own heads! I am clean. From now on, I will go to the Gentiles!

And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook his raiment, and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads I am clean from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.

For 25 years, the Bank tried to get governments out of agriculture, leaving impoverished peasants to fend for themselves.

As the scare stories become more inflated, so, too, does the likelihood that they will be exposed for the exaggerations that they are and the public will end up tuning the whole thing out.

The Wall s collapse in 1989 forced European Commission officials to dust off atlases to find places about which they knew little and cared less.

The mix of endogenous healing and strong central bank tailwinds, including from a whatever it takes European Central Bank, has also helped markets shrug off troubling political uncertainties.

Similarly, we have to hope that some of the same old stories that propelled us in the past the rise of capitalism and its internationalization throughout the world economy can somehow be dusted off and revived yet again to invigorate the animal spirits that drive economic recovery.