Barack Obama's Cabinet choices, right on the money, adumbrate an emerging potent leading indicator, maybe the only one that counts for now.

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Treasury TIPS bonds adumbrate a future rate of inflation nearing 3 percent.

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The art museum palazzos along the Grand Canal adumbrate hubris, a dangerous trait for anyone who collects art and operates in financial markets.

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The bare bones numbers adumbrate deflation and tensions.

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