Suppose for some perverse reason the central bank wanted to keep interest rates zero forever.
Taking away that ability, corporate treasurers say, might have the perverse effect of discouraging risk management.
They also criticise the "perverse" tax incentives for building on brownfield and greenfield sites.
More than the NT, the Hebrew Bible has some unusually troubling, disturbing, perverse or weird texts.
No not, in some perverse manner, a method of bailing out the banks from their mistakes.
It makes a perverse sense: Why not get out and be done with the market?
Only the perverse could imagine that disaster is just a matter of weeks ahead.
It is perverse to buy, just when it is exactly the right time to do so.
It takes a perverse blindness to propose more trade in the face of these statistics.
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And economists have long been wary of monopolies because of the potential for perverse effects.
Not for the first time, regulation turns out to have some perverse and unforeseen consequences.
The reason is that price regulation has created a mishmash of conflicting policies and perverse incentives.
Yet the perverse result of all parties being tainted may be that no party really is.
You might end up with kind of perverse outcomes of surpluses and shortages in different fields.
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But perhaps there was a perverse motivation, maybe subconscious, which brought Lance from hibernation.
It is perverse to know that only those who hurt him can also heal him.
Normally, to cheer the demise of a major company and employer would be perverse.
The financial crisis of mid-August and its aftermath have served only to strengthen these perverse incentives.
Mr. Emerson explained that this perverse role is the rule rather than the exception with Sen.
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Similarly, the EPA seems to derive perverse pleasure from fining refiners for failing to use nonexistent fuels.
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Writers of the era expressed their frustration with the car but also a perverse affection for it.
Perverse as it might sound, when the chips are down our appetite for being scared witless increases.
There is a perverse economic logic in the mentally ill ending up in prison, rather than hospitals.
Chenault, called "perverse" and "anti-competitive, " the company faces an overhang on its stock with regulatory uncertainty rife.
Some retailers are finding that deep price cutting may have a perverse effect, according to Mr Silverstein.
How perverse, therefore, that the contemporary news media keeps to an entirely different beat, an ever-accelerating tempo.
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The Tories were convinced that the benefit system offered perverse incentives to people to become single parents.
What makes all this perverse is that Argentina sits on possibly the world's third-biggest reserves of shale hydrocarbons.
But this distortion and these perverse incentives are there, regardless of whether the firm is for-profit or non-profit.
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This concept not only drives up the price of health care coverage, it also produces some perverse effects.
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