The economy, like the world, is messy and complex.
connects the economy with the aspects of the world by addressing its messiness and complexity
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- Mar 2021
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but in the casino of Wall Street the house always wins, and many Redditors may be flirting with financial catastrophe.
The author of the article gives his opinion about the stock market and how stocks are vey controversial; he believes that the dilemma that happened with Gamestop sparking people's interests as they believe stocks are more of a game that they have control over.
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a huge share of the value in stocks is held by a tiny number of Americans.
indirectly talking about how a tiny group of people in America can have a lot of power due to marketed economy we have
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perhaps stock reports should come with the same caveat palm readers issue when telling your fortune: “For entertainment purposes only.”
author uses a sense of humor to attract audience of all ages and gender
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The connection between the markets and the economy has never been especially solid
Author is known to the connection between the economy and the market and how its never been at its best; he talks about how stalks can slowly drag people away from the real world
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pundits
Indian term used to describe "priests"
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Why was I — why were so many of us in media — spending so much time obsessing about a story that mattered to so few people?
Rhetorical question the author is asking to himself and the people as to why Gamestop has been so relevant recently and why its important in the trading world
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GameStop saga compelling
Since Gamestop was about to go out of business, people from a reddit group decided to buy thousands of socks to bring it back and make money from the hedge funds
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Was this the beginning of a genuine revolt against billionaires
middle class and working class people were rebelling against billionaires by making hedge funds broke - edge funds consist of these millionaires and billionaire's money as these funds were heard to loose 9 billion dollars from stocks
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I found the initial narrative irresistible
the cheap stocks were irresistible not to buy
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This column is not about GameStop, though not for lack of trying.
Referring to the time when game stop stocks were booming and everyone was buying them in efforts to become rich
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- Feb 2021
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All we have to do is open our eyes and look.
Conclusion: the author treats space so seemingly to support his argument.It provides context as to why space exploration remain unknown even today.
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There is much we could do to keep an eye out for beings elsewhere
The author's thought came from the idea that there is in deed life living sustainably out there on other planets; Manjoo is promoting space exploration as he believes that they can soon find extraterrestrial life
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exoplanet
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These perceptions tend to stick; for almost three decades after the 1992 funding, there was essentially no NASA support for the search for extraterrestrial life.
the search still continues today with NASA trying to look for life on Mars
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Congress cut the funding,
they believed that they are spending too much money on invaluable things that will give no results
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looking for alien life just sounds kind of zany. In 1992, NASA spent $12 million on a project to listen for radio signals from other planets
space exploration takes up a lot more money than we thought
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a large, thin reflective object that might propel a vehicle using starlight in the way a sailboat is pushed by the wind.
Author could describe object a little more to give audience a visual of what it could have looked like
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consensus
another term for conclusion
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a telescope in Maui captured an exotic speck speeding across the sky. It was interstellar — recognized as the first object we’ve ever seen that originated outside our solar system.
shows that even a spec in the solar system can be a sight to see
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Still, Loeb argues, we are not looking hard enough
space is not as easy discover as hoped
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Are we alone? — lingers largely on the sidelines.
Author reiterates the question to keep the readers questioning their existence on earth
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Tech billionaires are funding novel efforts to scan the heavens for evidence of life, and after decades of giving the field short shrift, NASA recently joined the search.
proves that rich people are just as intrigued as scientists when it comes to life past earth
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extraterrestrial life
aliens
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If life is so common, why haven’t we seen it?
Author introduced a question to engage audience into beliefs of excerpts and scientists
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much of what humanity has learned about the cosmos has confirmed our insignificant ordinariness
author refers to humanity as a whole rather than a specific population to explain how everyone's perception of space is not as educated as we thought
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as planets go, perhaps as unusual as a Starbucks in a strip mall
Author incorporates a smilie to say that there are billions of other planets across the universe
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a lovely place to raise a species
author incorporates this to set a humorful tone for the audience as he says "species" to reference humans
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one of an estimated 100 billion to 400 billion in the Milky Way galaxy alone
reference as to how big the universe is and how small the earth is in proportion to that
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