A "who governs Britain?" election over much-exaggerated trade union militancy is old-fashioned, and voters gave Ted Heath a raspberry when he tried in 1974.
Then he exaggerated the trade deficit, falsely claimed that the budget deficit hadn't improved since President Obama took office, and pointed to the rising national debt.
Trump said that Democrats don't like police officers and that his tax cuts are the "greatest ever". He exaggerated the U.S. trade deficit.
Though these fears are greatly exaggerated, some horse trading will be necessary.
Talk of its weakness is greatly exaggerated: its real trade-weighted exchange rate against a broad basket of currencies is still close to its 30-year average.
You know, the studied boastfulness and wet-lipped excitement of trading exaggerated exploits with your gal pals before sucking dick got boring.
Computers also underlie another developing frontier, high-frequency trading, which is a fantastically exaggerated form of day trading.
Of course, investigators are trying to determine whether Enron's trading unit exaggerated the size of its long-term profits or manipulated prices during the California energy crisis.
A surprising number of the problems that affect traders--from impulsive overtrading to performance fears--can be tracked to an exaggerated ego investment in trading results.
Rich-country governments know very well that the supposed "adjustment problems" of expanded trade are greatly exaggerated: how convincing is it to blame accelerating globalisation for the migration of jobs from North to South, when America has an unemployment rate of less than 4% and real wages are growing right across the spectrum?
Economists say that most buyers simply moved up the timing of their purchase, and that the projected gasoline savings are exaggerated because many of the trade-ins were seldom used.
