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"A mug's game" nghĩa là gì?
13 Apr, 2020
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"A mug's game" = trò chơi của thằng ngốc -> nghĩa là công việc hoặc hoạt động ngu ngốc, nguy hiểm, dẫn tới hậu quả xấu.
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When the final cathartic plunge came in March 2009, nearly five months after the initial shock, nobody was talking about “buying opportunities” or “v-shaped recoveries.” The once-hopeful bulls had capitulated (đầu hàng), and the conventional wisdom was that stocks were a mug’s game.
Trying to pick the bottom of the market may be a mug’s game, but I’m a glass-half-full (cốc nước đầy một nửa - người lạc quan) kind of guy – in this case anyway. The difference in this bear market is the unprecedented (chưa từng thấy) level of fiscal (tài chính) and monetary (tiền tệ) stimulus that’s being pumped through the financial system.
Forecasting (dự đoán) productivity growth, meanwhile, is a mug’s game. We cannot reinvent antibiotics (thuốc kháng sinh) or chemical engineering, but many of the most productive inventions are not about big new breakthroughs; they are about working out how to use old inventions better.
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