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Contemporary newspapers published flattering portraits apparently written by publicists on Dillon’s dime.

Real GDP was likely also flattered by statistical effects like a low base and weak deflators, DBS’s economic team said.

The term structures of both the VIX futures and of the Cboe volatility indices have continued to slope upwards, although they are much flatter than they have been in quite a while.

And I don’t need to be flattered, I really don’t.

“It is flattering, to be sure, but a simple ‘Happy birthday!’ would have done just as well,” she thought.