Poorly designed regulations can choke off competition and the capital that businesses need to thrive.
One was a financial crisis, brought on by reckless speculation that threatened to choke off all lending.
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However, this disruption brings more opportunities and policymakers should not slow or even choke off these processes.
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By overregulating the capital markets and subsidizing mistakes, the government may choke off the signals that make capitalism work.
The firm has been open to poaching from rivals, and the upheaval has threatened to choke off new business.
Some say this extra burden will further choke off the means of recovery.
It also does not want to choke off growth by raising interest rates.
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That would choke off exports and risk tipping the economy back into recession.
One is a financial crisis, born of reckless speculation that threatened to choke off lending to families and to businesses.
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U.S. forces have been operating in that area to try to choke off Taliban and al Qaeda members fleeing to Pakistan.
Since the country's inception in the early 1990s, it has struggled to choke off profiteering from those in positions of power.
Another reason for caution is that firms on a cash crusade can all too easily choke off investment in promising new products.
Our reasoning: The company's huge capital expenditures would likely choke off profitability.
That, in turn, could force up interest rates and choke off growth.
On the other hand, if we design the new rules carelessly, they could choke off the supply of capital to businesses and families.
There is a big difference between due diligence and crippling regulations that serve only to choke off mining processes before they even get started.
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The industry's claim that the bill will choke off access to credit is a bit rich given its own rush to reduce its unsecured lending.
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Even so, others doubt that rising prices will choke off demand.
Perhaps more significantly, Ketz and others warn the plan could further choke off the credit markets and result in higher mortgage rates in the long run.
One of the challenges is we need to get those deficits down in the future so that we don't choke off economic activity and job creation.
During previous booms in commodity prices, as in the 1980s, central banks jacked up interest rates in order to choke off demand and so stifle inflation.
The Fed is unlikely to cut interest rates unless global financial turmoil or a sharp crash in share prices threatens to choke off American consumer spending.
In response to desperate pleas from Russian carmakers the government agreed to slap a steep duty and VAT on imported cars to choke off the supply.
Congress is debating sanctioning some of the few remaining Iranian financial institutions involved in such trade, which could choke off other avenues, regional businessmen and officials say.
Sam Taliaferro, an American who runs a property business catering to foreign retirees in Boquete, a hill resort, says that corruption threatens to choke off foreign investment.
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That would help stop the debt-to-GDP ratio rising, and would also ensure that the authorities did not prematurely choke off a recovery because of concerns about inflation.
Supporters of crowdfunding say the states' fraud warnings are overblown, noting the real danger is that national regulators will choke off the industry before it gets going.
In their remarks to the meeting, the finance officials repeatedly called for tougher steps to choke off terror financing, pointing to the link between global security and economic prosperity.
But they said they're also looking to develop mechanisms to choke off the exports of North Korea's ballistic-missile and nuclear technologies to countries such as Iran, Syria and Pakistan.
Japan has looked on in alarm as the rise in the value of the yen is impacting Japanese exports and threatens to choke off any hope of economic recovery.
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