Neither Congress nor the Senate are likely to do any real business now until after Christmas, meaning there is little chance of getting anything more than a very short-term stop-gap into the statute books by 1 January.
Back in 2011, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said that using continuing resolutions to deal with the budget resulted in "inefficient, start-and-stop management" through short-term contacts.
Other shorter term stop-gap measures currently being debated just won't help.
The first signs of a short-term low would likely be when stocks stop declining on worse-than-expected economic news.
Also, the Fed was planning to stop buying medium- and long-term Treasurys in October, removing a large source of demand.
Russia has made abundantly clear it wants Qatar to focus on Asia, to sell its gas under long-term contracts and stop feeding European spot market liquidity.
So this is a temporary stop on what I believe is the long-term, outstanding prospect for American growth and greatness.
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Sensible intervention cannot even buy long-term relief: the plan cannot stop house prices falling and the bloated financial sector shrinking.
April Comex futures prices dropped back below the key 200-day moving average and fell below important near-term chart support that triggered sell stop orders.
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Also use utmost caution if considering short-term temporary health coverage intended as a stop-gap measure.
His mother Sally lost her fight to stop him having the treatment fearing it would do him long-term harm.
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They tried to stop a couple of anti-spam software developers from using the term SPAM in their trademarks, but to no avail.
John Gunn, head of AIMS, said it was difficult to stop the storms and bleaching but researchers could focus their short-term efforts on the crown-of-thorns starfish, which feasts on coral polyps and can devastate reef cover.
But during the mayor's third term, the NYPD's so-called stop-and-frisk tactic has become a source of intense criticism and litigation in the courts.
Grady, also known as Brian Revill, had served most of his 11-year term for killing a man who tried to stop him during a mugging in Bristol.
Once again, Congress failed to stop the annual charade of scheduled Medicare physician payment cuts and short-term patches, which spends more taxpayer money to perpetuate a policy everyone agrees is fatally flawed.
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The lenders are granting short-term bridge loans to help service its debt, and stop shedding jobs.
At an analysts' conference a few weeks ago, he suggested that a sale might be the best thing for long-term shareholder value and that he would not let personal considerations stop a deal.
With most of the funds tied up in long-term assets, that could leave the banks short of cash if investors stop buying new products.
This shield does not stop all the cosmic rays from getting though, and its effectiveness varies with the long-term changes in the activity of the Sun, which can rise and fall on a timescale of centuries.
Malaysia has only recently started to shed a questionable reputation it acquired after former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad tried to stop money from leaving the country during the Asian financial crisis in 1997 by imposing short-term capital controls.
Wage stickiness could stop inflation falling much below 2%, and could justify the expectation of many economists that short-term interest rates will fall no lower than 2.75%.
Not that this is going to stop Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ), in the near-term, from doing what monopolies do: making big piles of money.
The gold standard had many flaws, but the chief virtue of fixing the exchange rate and constraining the supply of credit was to stop politicians succumbing to the inevitable pressure to respond to crises by debauching the currency, resulting in long-term harm to the livelihoods and living standards of their citizens.
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