Сергей Кузнецов - Speak and Write like The Economist - Говори и пиши как The Eсonomist

"The bad news is we didn't hit oil," ran the old wildcatter's joke. 'The good news is we didn't find gas."

Capitalism can make you well off. And it also leaves you free to be as unhappy as you choose. To ask any more of it would be asking too much.

Investors who believe in the beta mousetrap may find that the rodents have already escaped with the cheese.

The communist creed: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. The capitalist creed: From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his greed.

The American dream: a big car, a big house and Big Macs far all.

No one knows what future volatility will be.

Asked if anything interrupted his sleep, Helmut Kohl said it was night-time forays to the fridge.

In 1755 Samuel Johnson's dictionary defined oats as "a grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people".

They harvest the apples by cutting the tree branches.

Players of Pokémon Go have collectively walked nearly 9bn kilometres since the smartphone game was released last year.

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