Behaviour that may be rational for individual actors can cause chaos if everyone copies it.
This fate would undermine the rational for additional private-sector investment, resulting in fewer discoveries and smaller total proven reserves.
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And even if QE has no effect on economic growth, it may still be rational for investors to buy equities.
Under pure competition, it is rational for carriers to generate incremental revenue by setting fares only slightly above their marginal cost.
Such transparency gives the public and markets a signal of what the minority view is and the rational for the dissent.
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The best way of restoring New Labour's credentials is for the party to make it rational for us to vote for it next time.
If an American identifies strongly with Republican or Democratic values it is surely rational for him to move to a district he knows will return his preferred candidate.
"I face the world as it is, and cannot stand idle in the face of threats to the American people, " Mr. Obama said, outlining his rational for using force.
Both episodes stand like cautionary monuments to the chaotic ending of currency arrangements, so that it is rational for people to say to each other in 2011, "let's hope we don't repeat 1931, or 1935".
As a matter of tax fairness, it does not seem rational for certain forms of personal income to be taxed when the original intent was otherwise, whether that is applied to gaming proceeds, or interest, or dividends.
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Since an agency must attempt to maximize benefits within its budget lest its allocation be revoked or transferred elsewhere, it would be rational for agencies and interested parties to monitor benefits, but Congress need not and should not require it.
Hulbert also notes that the standards used to determine whether individual investors are over-invested in bonds and under invested in stocks are unclear at the moment, and it was completely rational for such investors to avoid stocks in recent years.
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The analysis in the speech he gave last night in Frankfurt, "Debt and deleveraging, long-term and short-term challenges", also implies that - on the basis of the eurozone's current rules and structure - it is rational for investors to charge more for lending to any eurozone government (even Germany's) than to governments such as those of the US or UK which have their own respective currencies and central banks.
For how can there be a rational basis for a ban that has been proven ineffective?
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But the court upheld a requirement for commercial interior design, holding that the state had a rational basis for protecting the public from inept design, which could create safety hazards.
There is no rational solution for dealing with the interrelatedness of the global financial system.
These toys carry a simple warning message: beware, my owner has suspended rational judgement for a moment.
But this psychologizing only exposes the inability of climate activists to take seriously the rational case for inaction.
Success in social media per se is not a rational objective for most organizations or for most individuals.
Pension consultants simply have no rational basis for claiming to be uniquely qualified to perform manager due diligence reviews.
No one has come up with an economically rational method for scrubbing carbon.
The deep concern is a lack of any rational explanation for these acts.
There are two semi-rational explanations for the sharp falls in the share prices of French and other European banks.
There, the justices decided that the state had no rational basis for denying same sex couples the right to marry.
But a rational plan for slimming should be based on the needs of the future, not the misdeeds of the past.
"There is no rational reason for investors to choose GM relative to Ford right now, " notes Francis Gaskin of IPODesk.com.
We know that the only rational objective for most long-term investors is to earn a real total return after taxes and inflation.
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What could be more rational, for instance, than finding a good business with good returns on capital and an enduring competitive advantage?
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The question is: how to get rational care for the most people.
There is no rational basis for the distinction between the semi-automatic hunting rifles that the ban prohibits and those it does not.
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