Each of these policies would help to raise short-term interest rates and limit the growth of broad measures of money and credit, thereby tightening monetary policy.

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Increase the tax on short-term capital gains and eliminate stock options to limit short-termism.

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You could limit the short-term roller coast risk by deciding to always have a big allocation of fixed income.

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By the end of the year, when the Fed has sold the last of its short-term bonds, Operation Twist will have reached its limit.

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Yet some analysts are tempering their short-term outlook for silver, noting that the rise in crude oil prices could limit the gains in the industrial precious metals.

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By agreeing to limit their production they endeavored to maximize both long-term demand for oil and short-term price.

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Rallying for six days in a row, towards the upper limit of its trade range with low volume, Wall Street is ripe for a short-term correction.

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But most members of the MPC also seem to think the economy has been permanently damaged by the crisis, and that this damage puts a limit on how much the Bank - or anyone else - can sensibly do in the short term to revive growth.

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