From the usurping king's blazing contemplation of heaven and hell, to the prince's own cackling meditation on mortality, Shakespeare uses melancholic monologues to breathtaking effect.
When the yield curve inverted last October, with yields on long-term bonds falling below those on short-term ones, analysts agonised about the signal being sent.
Thus the question of getting into — or getting out of — society which troubled young foreigners greatly, settled itself after three or four years of painful speculation.