WHAT REALLY HAPPENED TO IMPERSONAL CONSTRUCTIONS IN MEDIEVAL ENGLISH

What Really Happened to U.S. Bond Yields

Analysts have been able to say surprisingly little about the sources of the very volatile yields of long-term U.S. bonds in recent decades. We used surveys of economists’ forecasts to decompose long-term bond yields into expectations of future inflation, expected real short-term interest rates, and the expected bond risk premium. Variation in the bond risk premium accounts for most of the varia...

Impersonal Constructions in Balochi

Impersonal constructions are interesting from a typological perspective. Siewierska (2008: 3–4) finds that “[t]he semantic characterizations of impersonality centre on two notions”, either “the lack of a human agent controlling the depicted situation or event” or “situations or events which may be brought about by a human agent but crucially one which is not specified.” The present article focu...

The Medicare physician fee freeze: what really happened?

What is the history of medieval optics really about?

INCE ITS PUBLICATION IN 1975, David Lindberg’s Theories of Vision from Al-Kind to Kepler 2 has become the canonical ı̄ source for our understanding of medieval optics and its place in the development of modern optics. Lindberg’s ulterior purpose in writing this book was to show that, contrary to prevailing opinion, Johan Kepler’s account of sight, which is based on the casting of point-bypoint i...

What ever happened to accountability?

When leaders don't fire underperforming executives, they send a bad message to the whole organization. A case in point is the U.S. Army. "To study the change in the army across the two decades between World War II and Vietnam," Ricks writes, "is to learn how a culture of high standards and accountability can deteriorate." In this essay, adapted from his new book, The Generals: American Military...