This is partly because the government is quick to whip out a pile-driver whenever it perceives a policy problem.
And this is a major public policy problem, for at least two reasons.
The moment zombies are added to the mix, a dry public policy problem suddenly becomes a game of sorts, accessible to ordinary citizens.
Despite all this, obesity has proved a thorny policy problem.
We can debate if you want whether the newly created Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was necessary. (I think it was.) But there is absolutely no doubt that its director Richard Cordray has hit on a huge but mostly overlooked public policy problem.
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Feith: If the -- yeah, I mean, if the connection is that a team that is analyzing a policy problem by looking through a lot of intelligence is going to generate a briefing that is going to come to the attention of various offices -- I mean, that's true.
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Under the spell of the other policy paradigm captivating American foreign policy elites - anti-colonialism - Bush's leftist opponents never argued that the problem with his policy is that it falsely assumes that Western values are universal values.
The Environment Protection Agency today announces a new policy to tackle the problem.
Two million are not remotely enough to provide a policy solution to the problem of tens of millions of Americans who will be unable to afford personal assistance in old age or disability.
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But, as Thomas Mayer and Daniel Gros identified in a recent paper for the Centre for European Policy Studies, this problem can't be solved by simply expanding the EFSF - and not just because it takes so long to do it.
If at some point Congress or the administration does pursue further intellectual property enforcement in legislation, trade agreements or other policy, the key first step should be a clear assessment of the scope and nature of the problem so that the policy is appropriate and makes sense.
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In Indonesia, with crucial presidential polls scheduled for June, policy paralysis is a real problem.
The problem with this policy, however, is that it is depressing economic growth, and requires a great deal of financing from the IMF.
But although there is a certain amount of co-operation, particularly with El Salvador, American policy tends to make the problem worse for its neighbours.
But doing so as the central U.S. climate policy, poses an immediate problem: a modest carbon tax, by itself, cannot drive carbon emissions to zero.
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There is concern in the sense that this divergent economy poses a problem for the policy makers, namely the Monetary Policy Committee at the Bank of England.
Fiscal policy is more of a problem: more stimulus is unlikely and it is unclear whether George Bush's tax cuts, due to expire in December, will be extended.
The third problem is energy policy and its environmental impact.
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Israel has no official policy for contending with the problem.
AARP's policy director, says the problem is not that old people's benefits are too generous, but that medical inflation is too high and Americans do not save enough for retirement.
Perhaps the problem is bad policy in other areas.
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For Turkey, not only has the zero problem with neighbors policy been shattered, but the Arab world opening it had carefully nurtured will be negatively affected if transport trucks must now take a long diversion through Iraq.
At this stage in the evolution of the workforce, the problem is surely not policy.
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Councillor Clyde Loakes said it brought in the policy after residents complained about the problem.
In both Mercatus Center reports, the first step to better public discourse and policy is better information and clear problem definitions.
One way to look at the problem is through a policy lens.
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