All the petty differences that consume us in normal times all seem to melt away.
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And each thought, in normal times, that monetary policy was the best way to do it.
In normal times, America's small businesses employ half the workers and create 80% of the new jobs.
As the Cooley data indicate, in normal times, around 70 percent of VC-financed start-ups experience up rounds.
This might discourage investment abroad in normal times, but it will not stop capital flight in a crisis.
So I'm not so sure that hard media scrutiny is going to come out as in normal times.
In normal times, there would be a long line of trucks waiting to cross the border into Iran.
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It requires a tremendous amount of coordination and infrastructure, even in normal times.
In normal times, the Fed can bolster aggregate demand by reducing interest rates.
It requires an accurate inflation forecast, which is hard enough in normal times.
In normal times the opportunity cost of holding non-yielding gold, instead of interest-bearing bank deposits or government bonds, is high.
However, attempting to invest on the back of economic forecasts is an exercise in extreme folly , even in normal times.
Of course, a robust financial infrastructure has many benefits even in normal times, including lower transactions costs and greater market liquidity.
Admittedly, the manifesto does also contain attractive proposals which in normal times would have provided a sound platform to stand on.
In normal times such compromises, checks and balances help with the democratic deficit by ensuring that states do not feel too trampled-upon.
In normal times, the ECB had interacted overwhelmingly with large banks, who would allow the liquidity to circulate freely through the system.
In normal times, this case would have likely received little media coverage.
In normal times, Fed policies work through interest-sensitive sectors such as housing.
Even in normal times, a third of its calls are mistaken dials.
And although high-frequency trading may make markets less volatile in normal times, it may add to the turbulence at the worst possible moment.
In normal times, politicians who appear likable and optimistic will be more successful than those who are strident and demand their philosophy be strictly followed.
Having the discount rate higher meant that, in normal times, borrowing in the Federal Funds market would be less expensive than borrowing from the Fed.
In normal times, the difference is more like eight percentage points.
In normal times they play a crucial role in providing liquidity.
"In normal times they might not be able to pull it off, but the exceptional situation we are in means they have a chance, " says Akino.
The nearly 200% increase in the supply of base money over the past 36 months would, in normal times, be expected to produce inflation, if not hyperinflation.
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In normal times, for most countries, the key factors determining the level of bond yields are not the government's budget plans, but investors' forecasts for future growth and inflation.
It made no difference that perfectly sound institutions (mainly banks) in normal times could lose their liquidity in a general panic situation that was no fault of their own.
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Unless the Fed has changed its mind about one percentage point being the desired spread in normal times, the discount rate will be raised again relative to the Federal Funds rate.
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