Beware of rampaging metaphors

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Watch out for the bears on Wall Street. Be on guard against the unpredictable bulls as well. Bu...

Watch out for the bears on Wall Street. Be on guard against the unpredictable bulls as well. But most of all, beware rampaging metaphors and other figures of speech. Whenever emotions run as high in the stock market as they have during the drop of the last few days, attempts to describe the action run to wretched excess. Hence, headlines such as 'The Collapse of the 10,000-Point Floor' in the New York Times. Funny last week, but five minutes into the next trading session the Dow Jones Industrial Average was back above 10,000 again. Across town, the New York Post saw things on a ...

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