New York Times (April 5)
“With the release of the indictment and accompanying statement of facts, we can now say that there’s nothing novel or weak about this case…. Whatever happens next, one thing is clear: Mr. Trump cannot persuasively argue he is being singled out for some unprecedented theory of prosecution. He is being treated as any other New Yorker would be with similar evidence against him.”
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Financial Times (August 15, 2020)
“Forecasters least understand what is going on, and so make their biggest errors, when an economy is hit by a shock that is both novel and large. The coronavirus pandemic is both.”
Tags: Coronavirus, Economy, Errors, Forecasters, Novel, Shock, Understand
The Economist (September 1)
The Economist (September 1)
“The much bigger questions raised by this case [Apple versus Samsung] are whether all Apple’s innovations should have been granted a patent in the first place…. To award a monopoly right to finger gestures and rounded rectangles is to stretch the definition of ‘novel’ and ‘non-obvious’ to breaking-point.”