Over the past year, the central government has sought to limit economic overheating with a mix of macroeconomic and administrative measures.

ECONOMIST: It's not easy to slow down the economy

It is the Scythian world in miniature-the trousers and shaggy hair described by Herodotus, the distinctive mix of body ornaments and weapons, the central figures of horses.

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What do you get when you mix negative real interest rates with stimulative money supply efforts by global central banks?

FORBES: Central Bank Appetite And The Monetary Case For $10,000 Gold

The mix of unstoppable technological change with the apparently unanswerable intellectual defeat of central planning has made globalisation appear inevitable: only its speed and its consequences seem open to debate.

ECONOMIST: A bad time to be an ostrich

Analysts say that Venezuela's mix of Catholic and animist beliefs, especially in the south-central plains and jungles, is fertile ground for talk of spirits and curses which may otherwise seem out of place in an election campaign.

BBC: Venezuelan candidate Maduro puts curse on rival voters

Until now, the surge in Japanese shares had been driven mainly by a weaker yen triggered by optimism that the central bank's massive bond-buying program and Mr. Abe's mix of stimulus and growth strategies would steer the economy out of deflation.

WSJ: Tokyo Stocks' Rally Shifts Gears

The vast Olympic stadium in central Moscow was certainly packed with an enthusiastic crowd, which was entertained with the usual mix of the bold, the beautiful, the bad and the utterly bizarre.

BBC: Norwegians celebrate in Moscow