What Comes After One Hundred Twenty-Nine?

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"If ridiculous looking numbers don't signal a top to an overheated market, ridiculous sounding words do. And when, in this case, there are ridiculous numbers attached to ridiculous words — in other words we hit a double play of idiocy and right in a headline –well, without further ado I bring to you this beauty from Tuesday's Business Week Web site: Oil Hits $129, Heads for $130

"Where to start? With the automatic, implicit assumption that we will go up before down? Perhaps.

"Or the notion that you need a journalist to help you think out the fact that $130 comes after $129." [TheStreet]

May 22, 2008 · posted by david · Link · Respond
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