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You can define "inflation" and "GDP." Financial journalism is written mostly in weather and movement metaphors instead — the vocabulary no course ever taught you.
"Runway," "moat," "ship," "sunset" — tech journalism describes companies as organisms and products as buildings under construction. The vocabulary that makes it click.