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.
These are not normal times and the American economy is under pressure like never before.
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Economists badly misjudged this because they used fiscal multipliers that worked during normal times.
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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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In more normal times, the slow-growth companies might go bust - and produce a lot of job losses in the process.
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.
"Very high oil prices will dampen any kind of recovery and any kind of growth even during normal times, " Gurria said.
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.
That is surely quite different: a painful emergency measure, not a brilliant wheeze for running an economy in more normal times.
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.
Creating such dynamic oversight would reduce the costs to firms and the economy during normal times when market forces are reasonably strong.
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.
It is about three times the amount transferred during more normal times.
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But these are not normal times in Kenya, and Ombuki is bitter.
Even in normal times, a third of its calls are mistaken dials.
But with a peace to be won and constitution to be written, for which political consensus is required, these are not normal times.
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 short, not only has monetary policy been effective during the current financial crisis, it has been even more potent than during normal times.
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