In other words, bad as things seem, they will get better at some point and not even a perspicacious professor is likely to know when.

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None of those things is difficult to grasp, and I am not trying to present myself as uniquely perspicacious because I was able to produce a few Excel charts.

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Tim Ferguson, Forbes Asia editor, forwarded to me a recent interview with the exceptionally perspicacious Gary Schilling.

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