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But most governments are loth to put their citizens at the mercy of the world's imperfect markets.
ECONOMIST: Financing water projects
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According to Mossman, one of the main problems in the wholesale fuel industry is the lack of transparency, which creates imperfect markets because of hugely asymmetrical information.
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So you want to have markets as free as possible because while markets are unstable, regulators are even more imperfect than markets because they are subject to political influences they can be corrupt and they can be mistaken.
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Capital markets are imperfect, they observe, and households are unable to insure themselves against all of life's ups and downs.
ECONOMIST: Free exchange
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Markets are imperfect, but regulations are even more imperfect, so we have to be very careful what kind of regulations we introduce.
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For sure, financial markets are imperfect and founded on the cruel insensitivity of numbers, but this makes them useful tools for vetting BS (we talk about Facebook differently now).
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One answer is that credit markets are imperfect.
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Even though the markets' tell tales are imperfect, they could be used to empower the regulator, which brings me to the second major obstacle to dynamic oversight: political opposition during the time of expansion.
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Because these are tech markets, constantly evolving and complex, most assumptions about the scope of these markets and competitive effects within them are imperfect at best.
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The message seems to be that markets are willing to tolerate a highly imperfect fiscal deal (officially, the American Taxpayer Relief Act), permitting a greater focus on the continued gradual improvement of the world economy as a whole.
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