One would think that a disaster like Flordia's would prompt the State Board to reconsider whether it should be in the business of managing money.
Rich-country governments should help money flow from the markets by subsidising the risk of investing in clean energy in poor countries: public money should be used to prompt larger sums of private capital.
Importantly, as my FOMC colleague Gary Stern has pointed out, it would also mitigate moral hazard and the problem of "too big to fail" by reducing the range of circumstances in which systemic stability concerns might be expected by markets to prompt government intervention.
What is evident by the McChrystal recommendation (and by the apparent need to leak its contents, stemming no doubt from frustration with the White House stall) is that there is good reason to be concerned that the president's failure to make a prompt decision may in and of itself impair our ability to succeed.
In some companies, a performance such as this would be enough to prompt discussions of layoffs.
The hope was that exposure to the genes would prompt an immune response in the body so that cells containing HIV virus would be recognised and destroyed.
However, the unlikelihood of further prosecutions may prompt criticism by those who say the City should be brought to task for its role in the pension funds theft.
One risk, he said, would be a resumption of sell-offs in other markets such as equities, which might prompt some investors to sell profitable positions in gold to raise money to offset losses elsewhere, as has occurred in past bouts of risk aversion.
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Antibiotics can be effective anthrax-killers in an infected person, especially if someone contracts cutaneous anthrax and gets prompt treatment.
And the severity of the flu this year can be expected to prompt still more people to get vaccinated, including those who may not have done so in past flu seasons.
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Further, an improving Chinese economy could mean higher commodities generally and also prompt China to become more aggressive in relaxing the peg of its currency against the dollar, which would be supportive for gold, he added.
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Further, platinum could be deriving some support from the firmer tone in equities on ideas that softer U.S. economic data may prompt the Federal Reserve into undertaking more monetary accommodation, said Jim Steel, precious-metals analyst with HSBC.
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