Whatever the case, Barack Obama and his administration were dead-set on delaying this thing, presumably in an attempt to secure even more funds out of the thin night air to make sure the " millions" still "unprepared" would be ready to rock 'n roll when the transition actually, finally happened.
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Through the Fed and the big bankers, the politicians have through essentially unlimited borrowing and the creation of money out of thin air, the ability to do anything their little hearts desire.
Twenty-three minutes later, in the Sterling Cooper boardroom, Don pulled a perfect pitch out of thin air, the first of many resurrections.
Hence the need to conjure money out of thin air, or rather the government's off-balance-sheet equivalents the Federal Reserve and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, which may provide loans and guarantees without a word from Congress.
Libertarians tend to be sticky about principles and the last time I looked robbing savers of purchasing power by creating money out of thin air was theft no matter how Dr. Friedman or the Keynesians would like to justify the practice.
By creating money out of thin air, when the Federal Reserve deploys the quantitative easing tools at its disposal, it is printing money.
Building a company out of thin air is one of the hardest human pursuits.
When the Fed creates money out of thin air, for example, it is a lie.
By creating money out of thin air, government debases the currency, stealing from savers and depriving the economy of a stable unit of account.
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The third is going off the euro and declaring that all deposits will be paid off in new Cypriot pounds, which the government will simply print out of thin air.
"We kept coming back to having a partner in the experience and as we looked out onto the field of partners that existed (in other games), the air gets pretty thin, " Levine said.
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After all we cannot expect the revolution of startups to materialize out of thin air.
It did not pluck this idea out of thin air: this was advice from the august Institute of Medicine.
Lawyers at Berger Montague and Schonbrun DeSimone say the Second Circuit pulled that interpretation out of thin air.
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Hula dancers, Hawaiians appearing through windows that come out of thin air and kaleidoscopic designs are among the images that made appearances throughout the day.
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Digging deeper into the lie that is quantitative easing, history reveals that the act of creating dollar credit out of thin air is tantamount to dollar devaluation.
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The markets, until recently, have been reveling in a new found sense of security because the Government and the central bank have made investors believe that the Government could solve all economic problems and the central bank could create prosperity out of thin air.
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Because the ideas we put forward won't come out of thin air.
Through what is called the pyramiding of reserves, uncovered money substitutes can and are literally created out of thin air by private banks.
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Holding out hope, blind hope, blind trust, that progress will appear out of thin air for reasons no one really is able to articulate, that's not the answer.
Moments after Steve Jobs unveiled Apple 's thin new MacBook Air on Tuesday at MacWorld, dozens of units were put out on the show floor at San Francisco's Moscone Center, accompanied by teams of Apple employees, dressed in identical, long-sleeve black T-shirts.
Moments after Steve Jobs unveiled Apple 's (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) thin new MacBook Air on Tuesday at MacWorld, dozens of units were put out on the show floor at San Francisco's Moscone Center, accompanied by teams of Apple employees, dressed in identical, long-sleeve black T-shirts.
To believe the government can produce prosperity simply by printing money is to believe that governments can produce economic activity out of thin air.
This new standard didn't appear out of thin air, but is part of a liberal critique of welfare reform that has made its way into the Administration.
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