Extravagant relics of their centuries of folly, intrigue, excess and war are everywhere you look.
Taxes and regulations always have unintended consequences, but Europe's transaction tax is folly twice over.
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Local landowner Walter Barton May commissioned the Grade I Gothic Revival folly in 1835.
Struck by the realization of his folly, he will turn and come speeding back.
It would be folly for Washington to try to impose terms under such unpromising circumstances.
Your typical victim of investment folly is not necessarily a hapless schoolteacher or a gullible dentist.
Another example of political folly masquerading as public health is the role of the Agriculture Department.
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Writing down financial assets when the market for them is impaired is sheer folly.
They keep us from folly, even at the cost of reining in our wit.
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Mr Persaud points to another source of folly: chasing cross-country correlations in equity markets.
He said that it was folly to try to accomplish everything in the first term.
For Republican institutionalists, such as Alexander and Gregg, the push for rules reform is folly.
To sell him at a time when the transfer market is depressed would be folly.
The arbitration system has produced its share of folly and humor, especially in the early years.
But his folly is merely the political sex scandal of the season in Washington.
Outside the Olympic bubble, the folly of trying to suppress private sales is well understood.
It would be folly to limit, let alone effectively preclude, available options to do so.
He was just so happy, he said, shaking his head at the folly of his emotion.
We were saved from this folly by Iran, which refused to grant Mr. Kerry a visa.
There will, however, be a cost: protecting the consumer from folly or fraud will be harder.
He was proved right, even though no one predicted the full folly of America's subsequent policies.
Mr Aitken's friends acknowledge his folly but resent what they regard as his continued hounding.
Both provisions show the folly of trying to conduct social policy through the tax code.
Contrariwise, if audiences are staying away, it is folly to pour good money after bad.
Here is the place for the international jet setters to party, gossip and to stage folly.
The prospect of thousands of new jobs was destroyed by his small thinking and political folly.
Leaving such a valuable piece of land empty for the foreseeable future might seem folly.
There is yet a second reason why picking winners is not pure folly for the ordinary investor.
He inhabits a vast, restless, awful, and awesome isolation, which is both his folly and his tragedy.
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