economics

Bulls, Bears, and Black Swans: The Language of Wall Street

From the primal imagery of charging bulls and swiping bears to the stark warning of a "dead cat bounce," the…

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The Billion-Dollar Dialogue: How a Nation’s Language Policy Shapes Its Economy

Beyond culture and identity, a nation's language policy has a powerful, measurable impact on its economy. From Switzerland's multilingual GDP…

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The Future Tense That Never Was: How Languages Without a Future Tense Shape Planning and Perception

Did you know that many languages, like Mandarin Chinese and Finnish, get by perfectly well without a grammatical future tense?…

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The Language of Salt: How a Single Commodity Carved Paths Across the Lexicon

Long before refrigeration, salt was a mineral so valuable that Roman soldiers were paid in it, giving us the word…

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