Dry water resembles a very fine powder (like icing sugar or flour) that has a slightly more liquid-like appearance when it flows, and if you squeeze some of it in your hand hard enough the powder combines to give you a few drops.

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But even if REDD money flows in spate, it will not be enough to stop the clearance on its own.

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If the Fed is encouraging more capital flows into housing it is tautologically discouraging the very saving (everything we have today is the result of saving) that authors all economic growth.

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In the long run, too, aid may serve the national interest if it improves outsiders' opinions of Britain and somehow discourages wars, refugee flows, climate change or other nasties.

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If safe assets are scarce and emerging markets are a safe haven of sorts, it is likely that flows into the asset class will continue.

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