By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.

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And here I have to confess: I did drink a little Pinot Noir by accident.

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Yet this is a dangerous argument: the past three decades have shown that a little bit of inflation, just like a little drink, can easily get out of hand.

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