It's a bit like closing the barn door after the horses have escaped.
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None of this will solve the credit crisis, and there's a fair measure of shutting the barn door too late here.
"It would be akin to closing the barn door after the horses are out, " Obama said during his Wednesday evening news conference.
While that idea has growing support in Congress, it may be a classic case of closing the barn door long after the horse has escaped.
Many would say closing that barn door was inevitable and rational.
"This smacks of closing the barn door after the horse is out, " says Philip Orlando, a market strategist for Federated Investors, of the Fed's action.
Unless and until leaders lead, and we hold ourselves to a higher standard, more regulations will close this barn door, but not prevent a future calamity.
Not being able to include FX in the FTT leaves a barn door wide open through which the markets will drive the whole coach and horses.
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Maybe, maybe not, but with the barn door open that wide it sure seems like you could be gluten intolerant and just not realize it, right?
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Viewing this cycle, one might be led to the conclusion that Israeli and American policy is the equivalent of closing the barn door after the horses have escaped.
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Why Thompson and Byrne have subsequently been named in the team for the second Test remains a mystery, when neither can even draw a barn door never mind hit one.
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Farm tools likes axes, adzes and froes--even horses' tails swishing against the barn door--have all left their marks, giving the wood that lovely distressed look that comes from real wear and tear.
While Roberts may have closed the window of the commerce clause, he simultaneously opened the barn door of the taxing clause to allow an expansion of power that has never been allowed before.
So in a huge global financial manifestation of an enormous barn door being closed long after all the horses have vanished from sight, banks since 2008 have been forced by regulators all over the world to hold more capital, relative to the loans and investments they make.
Not even critics who complained that bailed-out banks were given free money by the Fed to generate fat interest spreads, then reinstated dividends to make their stocks rise in time for bonuses to be paid out, are saying anything about closing the barn door after the cows have gotten out.
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It features a smiling president and first lady standing in front of a background of green trees, which can be seen through the open door of the barn.
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