French rap may not always be explicit in its response to social unrest but it remains more political than its British or US cousins.
An index of European bank stocks, shown in the accompanying chart, is up by almost half since the end of 2011, although it remains more than 60 percent below its 2007 peak.
The Dow Jones industrial average is more than 60 percent above its lows a year ago, flirting with 11,000 for the first time since the onset of the financial crisis, though it remains more than 3,000 off its prerecession peak.
With its anti-environmentalist, pro-mining reputation, the party tends to draw its support from rural areas, though it remains more strongly represented at a regional level than in the national parliament.
In fact, despite the sudden and dramatic fall of its ratings in opinion polls over the past few years, it remains more popular than many other institutions.
Even if reality falls short of the ideal, PatientsLikeMe is still well-positioned as an information provider, selling its aggregated data to providers of all kinds as long as it remains more focused on solving the jobs of the patients who provide that data than the providers to which they sell it.
In fact, it remains more widespread than popular.
Some Western scholars feel it remains more legend than fact.
Yet it remains more likely that China's growth is slowing rather than slumping.
Bricks-and-mortar retail may be losing ground to online shopping, but it remains more profitable.
If the Supreme Court's popularity is tenuous, it remains more popular than the health care bill.
