If you've targeted a particular growth rate of cash GDP and the economy has not reached that rate, over a sustained period, the point of cash GDP targets is that the central bank is not supposed to just forget about those failures and look to the future - as the Bank of England has done with the inflation target.

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If the U.S. government permits such flim-flams as parent-to-subsidiary laterals and barter arrangements as a substitute for cash to circumvent ILSA (and, any other sanction regime), it can forget about having sanctions serve in the future as an effective policy alternative to generally ineffectual diplomatic demarches and draconian military responses.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

National reconciliation does mean forget about the past and let us dedicate everything, in fact, to the future.

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