But because he was a very intelligent man, I believe his thinking would have evolved with the times, with changing facts and circumstances, and with our better understanding of economic issues.

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Then you gather new data : you look to see whether there are facts to support changing your belief.

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"There is nothing wrong with changing your mind when the facts on the ground dictate it, " the statement said.

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But he may have missed some important facts that show how investor behavior is changing.

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On the other hand, if you look at how fast things are changing - in this Information Age the volume of facts in the world is doubling every five years.

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Mr. Clinton's speech contained no hint of these facts, concealing the realities it purported to be changing.

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You'll actually see a table in the economic report in chapter two that actually shows you what other people were forecasting at the same time we were doing our forecast, to kind of give you just the facts on the degree to which the world was changing very quickly.

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And they ignore the rapidly changing world around them, even in the face of cold, hard facts that clearly show the need to move in a new direction.

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If facts have any power to persuade, globalisation's harshest critics ought to be changing their minds, or at least beginning to have some doubts.

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