Today’s get-the-vote-out Google Doodle features the Chinese word 投票 tóu piào that means—you guessed it—vote. 投 tóu means to throw, to cast. And 票 piào is a ticket or a ballot. To vote 投票 tóu piào is to cast 投 tóu a ballot 票...
In the movie “The Big Short,” two Chinese characters are displayed in Dr. Michael Burry’s office at Scion Capital. (Blink and you’ll miss them.) These characters—欲 yù and 恐 kǒng—are at the heart of the Wall Street proverb, “Financial...
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