Wohlner, like many advisors, recommends buying insurance as insurance--meaning a term policy--rather than as an investment.
As a result, says the report, the government faces an "indigestible menu of short-term policy choices".
"Politicians are more than capable of separating the furore about Big Brother from long-term policy decisions, " he said.
That's why we called for the commission, because we've got to look at some tough, long-term policy objectives.
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Whatever the merits of the stability pact as a long-term policy tool, its short-term impact is now perverse.
After it expires it is far to expensive to get another term policy if you are even insurable.
The debate over a long term policy for deficit reduction shapes the course of GDP for years to come.
The government's response is a mix of short-term protectionist measures combined with modest steps towards more constructive longer-term policy changes.
They say that more clarity is needed over the government's long-term policy, particularly how it will achieve stringent C02 reduction targets.
The government is still working through its long-term policy on the issue.
Elsewhere in his speech, he said the "toughest challenge in politics is resolving the tension between the best long-term policy and the best short-term politics".
The market has given European leaders numerous chances to come up with some short and long term policy mix to keep the eurozone in tact.
Once you know how much you need, consider purchasing a low-cost term policy from a high-rated insurer for the maximum length of time you might need the coverage.
The authors say a long-term policy on incentives is essential.
And we will keep on being a victim to shifts in the oil market until we finally get serious about a long-term policy for a secure, affordable energy future.
For example, if you just need the policy to pay off the mortgage and you have 15 years left on the loan, a 15-year term policy should be enough.
Depending on your age and health status, the premiums for a permanent policy can be five, ten or even twenty times that of a term policy with an identical death benefit.
It could facilitate investments in electric grid improvements that enable long-distance transmission of renewable energy, as well as provide consistent long-term policy on grid upgrades and electric vehicle charging that makes utility investments predictably worthwhile.
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Agreements fully enacted in 1997 and 2006 stopped the state using it as an ATM, and as interest rates were liberalised and the bond market developed, the RBI began to look more like a normal central bank, setting short-term policy rates to try to balance inflation and growth.
It was his policy and has been since the beginning of his term the policy of this administration.
Advocates oftentimes admit that bailouts are not good policy, but they invariably argue that short-term considerations should trump long-term sensible policy.
Lord Birt became a strategic adviser in Downing Street's Forward Strategy Unit last year and is especially examining long-term transport policy.
Implied yields were already reflecting an about-face in the direction of short-term monetary policy before some profit-taking set in for Aussie bills.
According to Joseph LaVorgna, Chief U.S. economist at Deutsche Bank, a recent in Fed rhetoric has significantly impacted market perceptions of near-to-medium term monetary policy.
We discussed putting a long term care policy in place because the cost of an illness or accident could totally derail her retirement plans and dreams.
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Creating such an exchange would also help accomplish another long-term conservative policy goal: transforming health insurance from a responsibility for employers to a responsibility for individuals.
Yet it makes no sense to go for long-term tax policy with a lame-duck Congress, especially one more oppositional than the new one coming in January.
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Those are second-term foreign policy priorities for President Barack Obama, and Kerry tried to advance them in meetings with Turkey's foreign minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, and the Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas.
What really matters to create a new clean energy economy and stimulate private investment in the near-term are policy regimes that employ direct and targeted public investments to cover the cost gap between higher-cost clean energy and fossil fuels.
Long-term, policy analysts say, coal's comeback will inevitably fall foul of EU environmental policy, which calls for a 20 per cent reduction in carbon emissions from 1990 levels by 2020 and a growing role for solar, wind and biomass in electricity generation.
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