For example, the Goldman Sachs monetary-conditions index (based on a weighted average of short-and long-term interest rates and the trade-weighted exchange rate) suggests that America's monetary policy is currently at its tightest since 1989, largely reflecting the strong dollar.

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This is a weighted average of short-term interest rates, corporate-bond yields, share prices and the trade-weighted dollar, with the weights derived from the Fed's model.

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One, which has a racial and cultural texture that moderate conservatives try to avoid, is that the electorate is too heavily weighted with short-sighted voters who have discovered how easy it is to vote themselves the resources of the public treasury.

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The index is 76% weighted to a long position in futures contracts on two-year Treasury yields and 24% weighted to a short position in 10-year Treasury yields.

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It has just rallied back to its declining weighted moving average, which is a short-term negative.

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Along with five others, they had been forced to draw up restructuring plans after falling short of the 8% ratio of capital to risk-weighted assets that is considered the acceptable minimum by international financial regulators (by more than six percentage points in the case of Commercial Bank of Korea).

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