But he also had teenage children, so had been dunked in the stormier waters of adolescence.

ECONOMIST: Bagehot

Add in the ever more severe budget cuts planned by euro-zone countries and the picture gets even stormier.

ECONOMIST: Britain's economy

But there is another, stormier possibility: that of renewed market turmoil caused by the risk of sovereign default or a euro-zone break-up.

ECONOMIST: The world economy

Then he makes the chords stormier, driving them into an atonal snowdrift.

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