Over the past few years, an implicit weak dollar policy by the Federal Reserve has stimulated enormous growth in the U.S. stock market.

FORBES: Rising Signs for the Rising Sun

There had been a broad assumption that most banks under investigation were suspected of manipulating Libor submissions in the financial crisis period running from 2007-9 to appear healthier than they really were, sometimes allegedly with the implicit nod from policy makers.

CNN: Rate probe turns to four major banks

The great value of the annual Green Budget from the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) is that it spells out in black and white the fiscal choices implicit in government policy, some of which will come as a surprise - even, perhaps, to ministers themselves.

BBC: Fiscal choices from IFS

But this kind of thinking is implicit in a lot of thinking about patent policy, especially among patent lawyers.

FORBES: Does Innovation Revolve Around Patent Lawyers?

European policy makers are considering a host of proposals to eliminate implicit government guarantees, including a new resolution regime, turning some liabilities into bail-in debt that will automatically take losses, depositor-preference regimes that would subordinate unsecured bondholders, and U.K.-style plans to ring-fence certain activities.

WSJ: Agenda: Basel III��Don't We Have Enough Problems?