blip
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"For a long time, no one knew quite what to make of these oddball little blips of dimming," Bouma said.
From Science Daily
It’s hard to see if this is a brewing crisis or a blip.
“When the PPI surged in January, it could be downplayed as a one-off, turn-of-the-year blip. The further surge in wholesale prices in February is a sign of trouble.”
From Barron's
“If this conflict is over in three weeks, it’ll be a blip. We will not see much of an impact,” he says.
“Either of those outcomes would shift the balance of probability from an ignorable four-to-five week blip towards what we had previously identified as the worst case of a 2022-style energy shock lasting half a year.”
From Barron's
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