However, it is cutting off your nose to spite your face, because refusing to raise the debt ceiling would be consigning the economy potentially to another recession, certainly to reducing growth and job creation -- to the kinds of eventualities that would precisely -- would do the most damage to the cause of creating jobs and growing the economy.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

Republicans insist that the current legislation restricts individual choice, but it is conservative Democrats in the chamber who could do most damage to the hopes of the reformers.

ECONOMIST: Health-care reform in America

Most can be mollified before they do serious damage, but the bent to battle "unfair" liberalization of commerce doesn't bode well--not for the WTO 's Doha Round, already on life support, not for a new Pacific Rim attempt and not for bilateral trade pacts.

FORBES: Commercial Casualty

Even trucks repay, via fuel and user taxes, most -- CK arguably, all -- the damage they do to the Interstates.

FORBES: A river of subsidies

Even trucks repay, via fuel and user taxes, most -- arguably, all -- of the damage they do to the Interstates.

FORBES: A river of subsidies

Most of its 800 residents are gone, ahead of the flood expected to do historic damage.

MSN: Flood frontline gets some good news about crest

And like the treatment of appendicitis, most of the offending organs of television economics should be removed from the air before they can do any fatal damage.

FORBES: The Age Of The Rockstar Economist Comes To An End

Additional collateral damage from the settlement comes from the loss of jobs for most of the consultants hired to do the foreclosure reviews.

FORBES: Settling The Foreclosure Reviews: Winners And Losers