But when it comes to contagion and Greece there's still a lot that policy makers cannot know for sure.
Yet in China, there is also a lot of policy risk due to the cozy financial ties between state-owned businesses and Communist Party officials that worries entrepreneurs about the future, too.
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We also (re)learned a lot about tax policy and money in the interim.
And there are a lot of foreign policy issues all around the world from Syria to Iran, North Korea, et cetera.
"On a lot of substantive issues like health insurance, he was the first one out of the box with a very ambitious universal plan, and I think he forced the others to become bolder in a lot of their policy prescriptions, energy dependence and so on, " Klein said.
For the European Commission, it means a lot more references to the word growth in Brussels policy documents - and a lot of new European infrastructure projects which might well take years to get off the ground.
Makes sense in the same way that a lot of federal tax policy makes sense.
Green Party members will be talking a lot about their economic policy over the next few weeks.
One interesting factor underlying these discussions is a conscious attempt to put together the kind of alliance of powerful women ministers and backbenchers across parties that promoted a lot of legislation and policy change on women's issues in the last parliament.
Policy matters a lot, the authors find, a point particularly stressed by Mr Crafts.
But this kind of thinking is implicit in a lot of thinking about patent policy, especially among patent lawyers.
He has apparently decided to focus more on international affairs, perhaps because his foreign policy is a lot more popular than his plans for painful reform at home.
You need growth to revive confidence, and the only tool capable of producing growth in this climate, the critics would argue, is fiscal policy - a lot more government spending.
Mr. DAN BLUMENTHAL (American Enterprise Institute): I think that what happens when you get a lot of high-level policy people with their hands in it, you're going to get a more toned-down report.
Labour's intention was to ease the pressure on the squeezed middle, and also generate the idea of the British promise, the thinking being the next generation of youngsters should do better than their parents - but there were still a lot of questions around the policy, our correspondent added.
Compared with sorting out this lot, the macroeconomics of fiscal policy are a doddle.
But it's just that he brings a lot of gravitas again with foreign policy.
That policy will set a lot of the requirements for factors of safety and testing.
"The phrase has sparked a lot of poor thinking about the policy, " he says.
But when most voters look at the two of you, they don't see a lot of daylight between you on policy.
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He talked a lot about the "paradox of policy" in his remarks.
Small, open economies (such as Greece's or Ireland's) gain relatively little from looser fiscal policy, because a lot of the effect spills abroad.
And I think that's creating a lot of discomfort, because the monetary policy and the extra liquidity don't help to create jobs.
If you have children in school now, you may not have a lot of time to wait for federal policy-makers to come around.
So we all have a lot to gain or lose in this policy argument, enough to make it a major focus for the second Bush term on substance.
The President -- but I want to be clear, the President is not making political decisions -- or not making policy decisions based on a lot of weighing back and forth on different political ideas.
On the other hand, if the Fed fails to announce a clear and credible target, then the Fed will have to do a lot of work to achieve whatever unannounced policy goals it might have.
And the fact is, is that being here in the White House requires you to make a lot of decisions and a lot of choices that are a good policy that are often not necessarily good politics.
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