Day 1,903: murky, baffle, dwindle, dim

Balance-of-payments statistics have become so murky that even America’s Treasury is baffled. On August 19th stock exchanges stopped publishing daily numbers on dwindling foreign-investment inflows. As the economic dashboard dims, the private sector is finding it harder to make good decisions.

The real problem with China’s economy

Artwork of the day 
A Murky Day
Joseph_DeCamp
Date: 1886
Style: Impressionism
Genre: landscape
Media: oil, canvas

Word of the day 
murky: dark and dirty or difficult to see through:
baffle: to cause someone to be completely unable to understand or explain something:
dwindle: to become smaller in size or amount, or fewer in number:
dim: not giving or having much light:

Quote of the day
“When the world is murky, guide yourself with your own steady light.”

― Marie Lu, Wildcard