"There is no optimal solution here, " Walter Todd, principal at Greenwood Capital Associates, said last week.

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Reinstituting airline regulation is a political non-starter and in any case, is not the optimal solution.

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The demand from consultants and clients for zero tracking error drives him to a sub-optimal solution.

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But your optimal solution is likely going to be to take money out of your taxable account.

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Whether your main approach is left of right brained, you need to leverage the other half of your brain to create the optimal solution to your problem.

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In addition, he has argued for years that hybrids are not just a temporary solution, but can provide an optimal balance of cost and flexibility.

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The debt-ceiling crisis was neither optimal in its settlement, nor elegant in its solution, but it does provide a most vivid set of insights into both choice and leadership and we should at least profit from the spectacle that we have all be watching unfold before our very eyes over the past few months.

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And the unfortunate thing is that even that second solution would still take decades upon decades to actually create and optimal currency area.

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