When share prices have already risen a lot, commentators scramble for reasons why they should rise even further.

ECONOMIST: Equity markets

To the surprise of many, and against the expectation of a lot of commentators, the Supreme Court had ruled that the Affordable Care Act - "Obamacare" to its detractors - was constitutional.

BBC: Healthcare ruling is good for democracy

And there are a lot of liberal commentators saying, what is the President of the United States -- the current President -- going to do about this, when you have a former Vice President basically saying, I'm a supporter of waterboarding, and basically that the last administration did waterboard, when this current President has said that waterboarding is torture and is thus illegal?

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

Go back six months and many commentators were convinced Apple had a lot of upside left and indeed would prove the value of this new model.

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Because, despite a lot of hemming and hawing from Western commentators, the Russian budget has actually come back into balance extremely quickly.

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