Next to keeping its currency stable, the critical mission of a central bank is to stem financial panics, something Walter Bagehot wrote eloquently about more than 130 years ago.

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And the proliferation of TV investment shows--whose staccato bursts of trivia are something out of Walter Winchell, c. 1940--provide the forum.

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There is something deeply contradictory about Walter Mischel a psychologist who spent decades critiquing the validity of personality tests inventing the marshmallow task, a simple test with impressive predictive power.

NEWYORKER: Don��t!

He did not chat with Walter as a waiter would with a returning customer, yet there was something in his manner that showed friendliness.

NEWYORKER: Alone