But the Bank will be loth to repeat the mistake of the late 1980s, when too lax a monetary policy inflated a property-price bubble.
President Clinton spawned the legend that planes were delayed at LAX while a celebrity stylist snipped away on Air Force One.
Past regulation has been lax, a legacy of the sector's independent, co-operative traditions: it has been too easy, for example, to set up a caja.
No model in the world can prevent a financial bubble if monetary policy is too lax, or a recession if it is too tight.
You could see how angry Strauss was after playing a lax shot to Mahmudullah's off-breaks and not scoring his first hundred of the season.
And unlike America, Europe seems keen to use a lax definition of capital that is no longer viewed by the market as the best benchmark for solvency.
The courts have yet to decide who is liable if a computer system with lax security is used to launch a denial-of-service attack, but a number of lawsuits are pending.
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The EPA's action Tuesday is the latest in a series of strokes that shows it is reversing course from the Bush era, when it was often perceived to take a lax approach to enforcement.
Consumer advocates and some industry analysts contend that the agency long courted big banks to choose the OCC as their regulator by offering a lax approach to supervision and taking the side of banks in striking down state consumer-protection laws.
As a result, Owens-Illinois says, the trusts have lax proofs as to how a specific company caused a claimant's injury and fight efforts to disclose what they've paid out to individual claimants.
Just last month, the U.S. State Department said, in a report, that Canada's lax screening of immigrants and refugees was a direct security threat to the United States.
In practice, the IRS seems to take a rather lax view of what constitutes electioneering.
As a result, Brazil has adopted a policy to keep local interest rates high to offset a very lax fiscal stance.
Enforcement of fire-safety rules in Russia is lax, contributing to a death rate from fires that is far higher than in many Western countries.
Junk guru Martin Fridson calculates that a 1990--91 recession coupled with today's lax lending standards would give rise to a 17% default rate in junk bonds.
The official said inspections have become more lax, taking place once a month instead of weekly.
Federal investigators had reason to believe that the security breach may have happened at Los Alamos, a laboratory with a history of lax security practices.
Mr McPeake acknowledged the executive had been too lax, adding that as a result of what was uncovered, it was now "more hardnosed" with its contractors.
Those first few hours sum up all the problems of doing business in Indonesia: excessive red tape, unproductive labour, bad infrastructure, a lack of respect for the rule of law and a reputation for lax security.
While I am not an expert, it appears that a similar backlash against lax consumer finance laws and regulations has already begun in Japan.
Russians and others set up businesses on Cyprus to take advantage of a corporate tax rate of only 10 percent as well as a perceived climate of lax oversight.
The central bank, which has kept interest rates high to offset lax fiscal policy, is in a policy bind: even higher rates might attract a destabilising amount of speculative capital, while lower rates would fuel domestic demand and imports, pushing the current-account deficit higher.
They allege that the failure to effectively investigate and address the wrongdoing by employees of NotW and its parent division, News International, when it first came to light six years ago is part of a broader pattern of lax corporate governance and self-dealing at News Corp.
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Reform of financial institution supervision, notably lax lending standards and the need for a measured move towards greater transparency in credit and risk management, is being discussed at the meting.
With a combination of their current hotel inventory, use of campus facilities at either USC or UCLA, LAX plus additional airports locally that can help lighten the load, and a large population of sports enthusiasts dying for a chance to participate in an international sporting event, L.A. clearly has all of their ducks in a row.
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Consumers had gorged themselves on cheap money and lax mortgage underwriting standards and the result was a record amount of debt.
The administration wants to subject all consumer-finance firms to the same regulations to prevent a gradual migration to the most lax form of oversight.
The financial collapse in 2008 and subsequent federal bailout plus a string of hearings on the lax oversight and high-risk investment practices that led to it stoked public anger.
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