Reduced supply is genuinely worthy of worry, especially if it comes suddenly from a Middle East crisis.
Later, he will give a Commons statement on the wider Middle East crisis.
The current Middle East crisis is simply not amenable to the sort of expeditious resolution sought by President Bush and Secretary of State Baker.
It is a venue which has welcomed countless political leaders and business executives, during internet booms and banking busts, in the midst of a Middle East crisis and even during the lead up to two Gulf Wars.
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As a part of that plan, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell is crafting a speech that "will clarify its (the U.S.) views on an end result" to the Middle East crisis and the eventual "creation of a Palestinian state, " officials said.
The hardest blow to the euro, though, was delivered by the ECB's own president, Wim Duisenberg, when he appeared to suggest in an interview that there would be no intervention to save the euro should the currency be hit by the Middle East crisis.
We also asked for the political support of the United States to take a political position to support Lebanon and to support a peaceful solution for the Middle East crisis -- that cannot be done at the detriment of Lebanon -- and to reject settlements.
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The OECD even advocates higher taxes when nations are in the middle of economic crisis.
But it has not done much, understandably wary about losing if it invests rashly now in the middle of a crisis.
Now, they are being asked to approve policies that no one has used since the dark ages, while in the middle of a crisis no living person understands.
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The sorry consequences of letting Lehman Brothers fail, which was intended to discourage moral hazard, showed that the middle of a crisis is not the time to get tough.
Mario Blejer, who was Argentina's central-bank governor in the middle of the crisis, says that resorting to scrip would be even worse than creating a new currency outright (which he thinks would be disastrous).
However, as Peter Boone and Simon Johnson of the Peterson Institute in Washington, DC, explain, Germany then signalled that defaults could happen and that investors would have to bear a share of the losses a reasonable demand, but a hard one to introduce in the middle of a crisis.
Overall, global equities had the worst week since the middle of the financial crisis.
Japan is in the middle of yet another crisis, this time over bank reform.
Maybe it is not such a bad thing to do in the middle of a fiscal crisis.
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Indeed, risks don't come much bigger than starting up a financial services firm in the middle of a banking crisis.
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Labour must stop these irresponsible calls for more spending, more borrowing and more debt in the middle of a debt crisis.
It appears the White House has been extremely busy dealing with problems in the Middle East and the crisis in Iraq, in particular.
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In the four years since QE-1 was announced in the middle of the financial crisis, the gold value of the dollar has sunk more than 50 percent.
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During that period, the middle of the financial crisis, D.
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Number two, there is almost uniform consensus among economists that in the middle of the biggest crisis -- financial crisis since the Great Depression, we had to take extraordinary steps.
If you ask me where we are today in politics, I think the instinct of everyone today, especially in the middle of this economic crisis, is that we should be pulling together and not pulling apart.
It sounds like an exuberant offer from financial firms that were smack in the middle of a financial crisis but keep in mind these retail brokers had little, if anything, to do with any subprime mortgage meltdown.
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We also had an explanation about the situation in the Czech Republic from the Czech prime minister, who is also a man of great qualitities, and I clearly told him that if the Irish answer Yes, it is unthinkable for us to remain in limbo with a Europe that does not have the institutions it deserves in the middle of a global crisis.
But I am concerned about how Obama will handle the crisis in the Middle East.
What is true is that Europe is in the middle of a textbook liquidity crisis.
If that happens it could cause a much bigger crisis across the Middle East.
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