Reducing consumption seems intuitively to be an indispensable component of any policy response to climate change.
The Great Recession is very similar in origin, but the policy response was different from the Fed.
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Cailloux said the market is demanding a more robust policy response for the selling pressure to abate.
In the process, the scientific controversy would distort the policy response and expose the public to potentially serious harm.
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And some form of shock or other force pushing prices higher or lower might inspire a monetary policy response.
Thus, the most significant policy response we have seen today has been the creation of a military command, USCYBERCOM.
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Neither of these parallels is exact, because today's global slump combines several types of downturn and an unprecedented policy response.
Second, there is a clear disconnect between the rhetoric used to motivate a policy response and actual diagnoses of the problem.
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This promising start, however, was kyboshed by the two oil shocks of the 1970s, and even more by a knuckle-headed policy response.
And the optimal policy response then is to subsidise clean technology research.
At the same time, the Fed has become more cautious, and curiously uncertain, about the appropriate policy response in the current situation.
We agreed on the importance of a strong policy response by the affected countries and a strong financial response from the international community.
First, I have noted previously that hypothetical, cyber-doom scenarios have become a staple of efforts to motivate a policy response to cyber threats.
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The obvious policy response is intervention to cap the sterling rate, build up foreign-exchange reserves, and offset the monetary effects by issuing sterling debt.
The climate system is not a stovepipe and any policy response to climate change that pretends otherwise is likely to be the road to ruin.
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For America to remain competitive, the appropriate public policy response is to ban neither research nor international trade, but rather to invest heavily in both.
The downgrade was mainly a reaction to a lack of policy response by Euro leaders, as contagion fears have put increased pressure on Spanish bond yields.
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Rather, it was free-market economics and globalization that caused the mass migration of Muslims from East to West -- and multiculturalism was simply a policy response.
Depending upon your viewpoint, all of this is either a wise and brave policy response or the Fed is easing on down the road of Zimbabwean hyperinflation.
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As you know, our representatives are traveling in the region right now to brief our partners and our allies and coordinating a policy response to their actions.
Most relevant to the present strategic decision, he repeatedly and assiduously asserted in 1990 that economic sanctions were the appropriate policy response to Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait.
It makes for unhappy but realistic reading for the US economy and it provides a starting point for a fantasy-free policy response to American decline as well as for the British.
Put differently, megabanking creates systemic risks so big in scope and scale that the only rational policy response is to respond with regulations that actually strengthen the characteristics of the system, intensifying the risk.
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The size of the policy response grew too.
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Ironically, while geo-engineering has provoked strong objections from environmental groups, it has simultaneously been embraced by politically conservative organizations like the American Enterprise Institute, which have historically opposed a strong policy response to climate change.
And today, as you know, I believe, the G7 ministers and governors reviewed developments in the global economy and financial markets, and the policy response currently under consideration, including progress towards financial and fiscal union in Europe.
"In the event of a further slowdown in the global economy, our sense is that most economies in Asia have room for a strong policy response, " said Anoop Singh, director of the IMF's Asia and Pacific Department.
About the policy response from the Obama administration and the Federal Reserve, Huether notes that the stimulus package produced a beneficial uptick in demand, but its temporary impact has limited the proper distribution of profits that resulted.
It is much more likely to come a part of a monetary policy response to the dramatic deterioration of the economic situation, which will be exacerbated in the periphery by barely suppressed panic in sovereign bond markets.
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