NOBODY talks about "decoupling" any more.
"The market is not at all convinced about decoupling, and I think the market is probably right," said Thomas Mayer, the chief European economist at Deutsche Bank in London.
It's all about decoupling applications from the data they use," he adds.
Steve Gilman, chief scientific officer at Cubist, is skeptical about decoupling financial rewards from sales.
BEIJING — As sure as night follows day, a flurry of warnings that the global recovery is faltering is reviving the great debate about whether the Asian economy can decouple itself from that of the West.
Economists have furiously debated whether decoupling was taking place.
And not long ago everyone was talking about "decoupling," the supposed ability of emerging market economies to keep growing even if the United States fell into recession.
This phenomenon is particularly acute in shaping our opinions about politics, decoupling our most visceral biases and illusions from the need for objective verification.
So is the debate about copyright irrelevant?
Meanwhile, debate about uniforms is still raging.
There is a debate about this rhetoric.
