Second, private-sector decisions about saving and investment may sometimes be based on false hopes about profits and stockmarket returns hard to believe, given Wall Street's fine record these past few years, but true nonetheless.

ECONOMIST: America's current-account deficit

There is a paradox here that is hard to wrap your head around, but is nonetheless true (for me, anyway): those most apt to hunt and fish for game are those most apt to work to save said fish and game.

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All true, but Buttonwood can't help feeling nonetheless that many pundits have cried sheep once too often.

ECONOMIST: Markets should worry about the surging oil price

True, the parties agreed to the transaction ahead of time, but the arrangement can nonetheless become exploitative, or so it is argued.

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This is still true, but the high expectations that exist for her government, at home and (especially) abroad, may nonetheless prove hard to live up to.

ECONOMIST: Doubts are growing about Angela Merkel, at least at home