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Peter Coy

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Peter Coy is economics editor of Bloomberg Businessweek magazine. He previously was technology and telecommunications editor.

Staggering Drunks and Fiscal Cliffs: How Bloomberg Businessweek Uses Metaphors in the News

Illustration by Harry CampbellIn 2008, the year of the financial crisis, BusinessWeek magazine pictured Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke as a driver careening down a mountain road, then as Vladimir…
June 13, 2013
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