The biggest fly circling the ointment is Europe and the potential for a financial meltdown.
Here we stand on the brink of a financial meltdown that could make the recent recession look like a walk in the park.
By contrast, it is hard to know how much weight to give in such decisions to the remote chance of a financial meltdown.
With the November presidential election getting closer, US officials are relieved to think the threat of a financial meltdown in Europe has been deferred.
Pan back to late 2008, when it was clear the economy was slowing fast and a financial meltdown was threatening to create even greater havoc.
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We supported TARP as a way to prevent a financial meltdown, providing public capital to help regulators manage problem banks, arrange mergers, and work off bad assets.
Even now, Mr Noda's political priority has little to do with the tsunami: it is the consumption tax, which he wants to raise to prevent a financial meltdown.
It would have huge social costs in a financial meltdown.
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Their fiscal discipline has served as a model for the rest of Europe, and the continent is hoping that Germany will take the lead in avoiding a financial meltdown.
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As for inventory and accounts receivable, it's not uncommon for those to be discounted by as much as 50% (for fear of, say, one big customer having a financial meltdown).
This twelfth trading week of 2013 comes to a close with investors breathing a sigh of relief as a banking deal between Greece and Cyprus emerged that eased fears of a financial meltdown on the island.
Mr Obama can reasonably point out that he was elected in the wake of a financial meltdown that had threatened to bring about another Great Depression, with an unemployment rate that would make the current one look like a lucky escape.
Leeds began the last decade at the top of the Premier League and challenging in Europe until a financial meltdown saw them slip down the divisions, but the current side under manager Simon Grayson are restoring pride to a once great club who were winning at Old Trafford for the first time since 1981.
While a total financial meltdown may not be in the cards, recent reports of slowing European economic growth could throw a damp towel on the nascent global stock resurgence.
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The global economy is growing and should continue to do so, barring a European financial meltdown.
The risk of a dollar crash and a subsequent financial meltdown are not negligible.
The feeling is that we won't spend the year worrying that a global financial meltdown lies just around the corner.
After years of suffering the consequences of a financial sector meltdown, GE very much wants to be an industrial company now.
Europe is teetering on the edge of a serious financial meltdown, and football is nonexistent in the United States compared to the fanaticism it inspires in, say, England.
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Nevertheless, given changes in American society over the past 100 years, it appears as if the left would have more to lose on a socio-political level in the wake of a complete financial meltdown that gives rise to societal breakdown.
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For those who believe excessive risk-taking on Wall Street was at the heart of the global financial crisis, sweeping reform on a scale not seen in 80 years was the necessary remedy to insure that a similar financial meltdown does not occur any time soon.
It is an angry book because Bill Isaac is by no means pleased with the string of policy blunders (mark-to-market accounting, pro-cyclical regulatory regimes from FASB and the SEC, the repeal of Glass-Steagall, etc.) that led to a global financial meltdown in the fall of 2008.
Finally, a strong middle class can only exist in an economy where everyone plays by the same rules, from Wall Street to Main Street. (Applause.) As infuriating as it was for all of us, we rescued our major banks from collapse, not only because a full-blown financial meltdown would have sent us into a second Depression, but because we need a strong, healthy financial sector in this country.
President Bush is already leaving the White House under a cloud with the financial meltdown and two wars yet to be won.
But at this point, I think, Renee, it would probably take an event of a magnitude like the financial meltdown to really shake up this race.
Many investors as well as policy makers around Europe feared that a victory for Syriza could lead to deadlock between Athens and its creditors, accompanied by potential bank runs, financial meltdown and a messy Greek exit from the euro.
The government's creation of a mechanism to take on bad assets from banks and other financial institutions has stopped a catastrophic meltdown of the system.
Obviously, it is a reflection of the success and extent of globalisation, that, while the tremors of the Asian financial crisis a decade ago reverberated regionally, the current financial meltdown has left no nation unscathed.
For the past two years Greece and its donors have held each other in a balance of financial terror, each fearing the meltdown that would follow a Greek default and departure from the euro.
This might take the aircraft out of service for a year or more, and would bring the airframer close to financial meltdown as it battled with a crisis much worse than the delay it experienced getting the 787 to certification.
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