Provides stability and flexibility to insurers and businesses that offer insurance coverage as the nation transitions to a more competitive marketplace in 2014 when small businesses and consumers will have more affordable choices through Exchanges, the same choices as members of Congress.

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It is not a disposable or easily replaceable product, and consumers will want stability and support alongside power and flexibility.

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To date, inflation expectations appear to have remained reasonably well anchored, but any tendency of inflation expectations to become unmoored or for the Fed's inflation-fighting credibility to be eroded could greatly complicate the task of sustaining price stability and reduce the central bank's policy flexibility to counter shortfalls in growth in the future.

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He can also argue with some justification that the greater stability he wants to bring about in the housing market and the greater flexibility he wants to see in public-sector wage-fixing are worth achieving in themselves.

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As for the stability pact, it seems perverse to impose artificial constraints on borrowing when both monetary and exchange-rate flexibility have just been removed and greater fiscal flexibility may be needed to compensate.

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Fitch cited the UK's diversified economy, robust institutions and political stability in its decision, adding that the country's independent monetary policy framework gives it added flexibility.

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