The proper response would have been a focus on long-term spending control and pro-growth policies, not a panic-based, growth-discouraging tax hike.
With hindsight we can now see that investors who stayed the course, not selling in a panic in 2008, are finding themselves in 2013 in quite a happy place.
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In the last crisis, taxpayers made a nice business out of relieving a bank panic that arose, circularly, from fear that taxpayers would not act to relieve a bank panic.
He argues that the selloff of telecom stocks was not entirely a sign of panic on the part of investors.
Then there is the obfuscatory nature of bureaucracies (government, businesses and the media), that hides facts for reasons both good (not wanting to cause a panic) and bad (self-interest).
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The good news for bulls is that in the event of a pullback, we would not expect a decline to be exacerbated by panic selling, since those that have recently accumulated stocks have purchased index or exchange-traded fund (ETF) puts, or VIX calls, as insurance against a correction .
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These things might have gone unnoticed had her first observation not covered her in a thin sweat of panic: the bed was empty.
Above all, he has a relaxed temperament, not prone to panic.
History proves that the current meltdown is not a first, and those who avoid panic selling now should be rewarded with better exit points as recovery unfolds in the months ahead.
But it might not take such dire conditions to cause a panic that would send investors running to the bank to pick up or sell that chunk of gold they think is waiting with their name on it.
That is, if things go badly but not so badly that there is a full scale panic, you can still loose money.
Professor Rona Mackie, an expert in skin cancer from the University of Glasgow, said it was important that people with a family history of melanoma did not panic.
The Game 1 winner won all six of the series these teams played from 1993-2000, but the Knicks refused to panic, with Woodson not considering a change to a bigger lineup to match the Pacers' size.
The Game 1 winner won all of the six series these teams played between 1993-00, but the Knicks refused to panic, with Woodson not considering a change to a bigger lineup to match the Pacers' size.
"There's not a day that I don't kind of panic when I know that my workforce is all working from home, " she says.
First, the region's economies face yet another slowdown, even if the worries about Argentina's debts do not develop into a full-blown emerging-market panic.
What truly provoked him, and what filtered into his stories, was not so much misogyny as a more basic, mortal panic at gazing into the face of the unknown.
The court heard how the ornaments were hidden on waste land in the Browney Lane area of Durham after the break-in, "possibly in a panic", and could later not be found.
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It would be hard for me to imagine that doctors could be susceptible had it not been for a friend who called me in a panic after her gynecologist recommended the test.
"People got caught off guard a little yesterday, but I'm not sensing panic anywhere, " said Rick Fier, director of equity trading at Conifer Securities.
For voters who were not already worried, this week's stockmarket panic was a rude awakening.
But can the level of fear be adequate to engender such a change of heart while not so powerful as to trigger panic?
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The Coffee News Information Service, the communications arm of the Oxfordshire based Coffee Science Information Centre, said in a statement that mothers-to-be should not panic.
Officials stressed that children would have to drink a lot of it before it harmed them and urged people not to panic-buy.
If Milner does leave Villa Park, Morley thinks the Villa fans should not panic into thinking they are losing ground to their rivals for a top-four place next season.
They are supported not just by their colleagues in neighbouring countries, but by a growing number of panic-stricken economists at banks, hedge funds and brokerages.
Absent collective panic, our economy will not implode if we move from running a 7 percent of GDP deficit to a 3 percent of GDP deficit.
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