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Mao Zedong’s “Great Leap Forward” (1959) was designed to mobilize the masses in a crash program of economic growth, but it kept the country in turmoil and brought unconvincing results.
The New York Times ' lead says that the U.S. will provide several billion dollars of aid to Brazil, as part of a $30 billion international package to help stave off financial turmoil there.
It seems that many countries deep in economic turmoil will now be instituting limits on the freedom of foreigners to lend and residents to borrow foreign currency.
I concede that my inner turmoil over doughnuts is not of great moment.
Writing recently in The New Yorker , Calvin Tompkins complained that the 1980s paintings lacked the "messy viscous slathers of pigment, the turbulence and turmoil, ...