Two Words to Complete the Phrase
"When life gives you lemons..."
What is "make lemonade"?
This economist argued that the market mechanism can fail by leaving insufficient demand and that governments could intervene by increasing aggregate demand
Who is Keynes?
Total up all the numbers in a set & divide by the number of numbers to get this, also called the mean
What is an average?
"Jabberwocky" appears in this author's "Through the Looking-Glass"
Who is Lewis Carroll?
This type of camping for the pampered dates to 2005
What is glamping?
"I came, I saw, ..."
What is "I conquered"?
What is ceteris paribus?
This property says that the order in which you multiply 3 or more numbers doesn't matter; the product will be the same
What is the associative property?
A leading voice of the Harlem Renaissance, he wrote, "I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother"
The act of ending a relationship by abruptly cutting off all communication has had this name since 2012
What is ghosting?
"Ignorance of the law is..."
What is "no excuse"?
This word refers to how "flexible" an economic factor is in relationship to another economic factor
What is elasticity?
You'll learn about matrices & vectors in the linear form of this branch of math
1956's "Let Us Compare Mythologies" was the first book of poems by this man more famous for songs like "Hallelujah"
Who is Leonard Cohen?
2012 gave us this alliterative term for the device that lets you take a turnaround photo from a better angle
What is a selfie stick?
Among AFI's 100 Greatest Movie Quotes of All Time: "E.T. ..."
What is "phone home"?
This type of "funny" figure demonstrates how lower tax rates affect economic growth
What is a Laffer curve?
A top predator might perch on this, the uppermost vertex of a pyramid or cone
What is the apex?
The line "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever" comes from his poem "Endymion"
Who is John Keats?
This gendered word for condescendingly expounding has only been around since 2008
What is mansplaining?
A principle often attributed to Hippocrates & followed by doctors: "First do..."
What is "no harm"?
This 9-letter word means simultaneously buying an asset in one market and selling the asset in another to take advantage of price differences between markets
What is arbitrage?
The wavy lines in the expression seen here, ≈, stand for this
What is approximately equal to?
She won a Pulitzer Prize in 1993 & in 2020 this poet, whose last name means good fortune, won the Nobel Prize for Literature
Who is Louise Glück?
Folks have been making these catalogs of things to do before they die since 2006
What are bucket lists?