Although this may seem off-topic when discussing Ellen Willis, I want to reproduce the quote that accompanies the "winning" album, since the position of Ellen Willis in history helps us index the history of pop criticism.
And, for the record, Christian Grey has the longest index finger of any character in the history of literature.
Beck's constant talk of hyper-inflation made me a little nervous, so I checked out the figures with the Bureau of Labor Statistics BLSS) and found that, last year, the price of food increased by a modest 1.4% and the overall consumer price index increased by 0.6% – the smallest 12-month increase in the history of the index.
That was in 1987, which began with the best January in the history of the index — up 13.2 percent — and ended including the worst single day ever for the index, a 20 percent plunge on Oct. 19.
That's the smallest increase in the history of the index, which began in 1957.
The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 lost 2.8% and Germany's Dax lost 4.3%, its weakest start to a trading year in the history of the index.
In 2011, the industry started more than 1,100 portfolios, the second-highest number in the history of the index, the firm said.
As we now know, the pain was just beginning and stocks went on a big slide; the Dow Jones Industrial Average now has a virtual lock on finishing 2008 with one of its five worst annual percentage losses in the history of the index, nestled among Depression-era years and the horrendous Panic of 1907.
Compared with a year earlier, the average home price in Atlanta fell 17.3% in February 2012, the largest annual drop in the history of the index for any city.
