The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation was thought to be self-funded by the institutions whose deposits they insure, but they, too, underpriced the insurance by taking a backward-looking approach to funding.

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Accounting rules now encourage a backward-looking, quantitative approach.

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The backward-looking nature of this approach is also troubling, even to potential fans of the approach such as Mark Carney.

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We need faster and easier checkpoints, but instead of coming up with a novel approach, the TSA wants to go backward.

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Compared with traditional songwriting, the Basement Jaxx approach to creating music might appear to work backward.

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The standards-based approach to school reform begins by looking at the goals that policy makers seek to accomplish and then works backward to design ways of reaching these goals.

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