12 May 2015

• Inanity: Lack of sense, significance, or ideas; silliness
• And nowhere was the triumph of inanity more complete than in Keynes's homeland, which is going to polls as I write this. (Paul Krugman) 
• Inchoate: Not yet completed or fully developed; rudimentary
• The party of war may also have sent Igor Strelkov and his merry band of murderers into eastern Ukraine last spring, to turn an inchoate set of local protests into the beginnings of a civil war. (Keith Gessen)
• Can you feel an inchoate multipolar world? Well, just look right here at the BRICS 2015 Ufa declaration. The EU is hardly featured in the BRICS declaration and not by accident. (Pepe Escobar) 
• Profligacy: Reckless extravagance
• Fiscal profligacy caused the economic crisis of 2008-2009. (Paul Krugman)
• Sine qua non:  an indispensable condition, element, or factor; something essential
• This linear path was the yuppie sine qua non, the mark of a serious person who climbed the ladder. (Arthur C. Brooks)
• Ghemawat argues that a high degree of commitment is a sine qua non for strategic decision making but is silent on the decision's implications for the firm's scope. (Ram Shivakumar) 
•  Hamster-wheel: Doing or saying the same thing over and over; repetitious.
• In contrast, purposelessness — no matter how closely tied to worldly prosperity — generally defines a hamster-wheel life, alarmingly bereft of satisfaction. (Arthur C. Brooks)
• Sisyphean: Endless or unavailing, as labor or task.
• “Find a fun job” sounds vaguely Sisyphean. (Arthur C. Brooks)