“Too-easy credit and millions of bad loans made during the U.S. housing bubble paved the way for the financial calamity and Great Recession that followed. Today, by contrast, credit is too tight. Mortgage loans are particularly hard to get, creating a problem for the housing market and the broader economy.” WayMadeHardProblemTodayEasyMillionsEconomyCreatingFinancialCreditBubblesContrastHousingLoanCalamityMortgageRecessionsGreat RecessionHousing MarketHousing Bubble Author:Mark Zandi
“The more closely [the German army] converged on [Stalingrad], the narrower became their scope for tactical manoeuvre as a lever in loosening resistance. By contrast, the narrowing of the frontage made it easier for the defender to switch his local reserves to any threatened point on the defensive arc.” MadeMilitaryEasierArmyLocalsResistanceMade ItContrastReservesThreatenedScopeArcsDefendersLeversTacticalStalingrad Author:B. H. Liddell Hart
“Da Vinci was as great a mechanic and inventor as were Newton and his friends. Yet a glance at his notebooks shows us that what fascinated him about nature was its variety, its infinite adaptability, the fitness and the individuality of all its parts. By contrast what made astronomy a pleasure to Newton was its unity, its singleness, its model of a nature in which the diversified parts were mere disguises for the same blank atoms.” MadeShowsScienceNatureNaturalPleasureModelsInfiniteUnityMereIndividualityAstronomyVarietyAtomsFascinatedContrastBlankDisguiseGlancesMechanicInventorNotebookNewtonAdaptabilitySingleness Book:The Common Sense of Science Source: The Common Sense of Science
“In sharp contrasts to traditional art, modern art does not hide the fact that it is something made and produced: on the contrary, it underscores the fact.” DoeArtMadeFactsModernContraryTraditionalContrastModernismModern Art Author:Theodor Adorno
“The Moon was the most spectacularly beautiful desert you could ever imagine. Unspoilt. Untouched. It had a vibrancy about it and the contrast between it and the black sky was so vivid, it just made this impression of excitement and wonder.” MadeBeautifulBlackWonderImagineSkyMoonImpressionDesertExcitementContrastVividVibrancy Author:Charles Duke