Poindexter has been a driving force behind two promising DARPA initiatives: the Total Information Awareness (TIA) project and the Policy Analysis Market (PAM) .
This weekend, a top level Russian official told Forbes that no matter who is elected president in 2012, the policy of market reforms will continue.
"To achieve the stated policy goal of stabilising growth and the jobs market, Beijing must step up policy easing to lift infrastructure investment in the coming months, " said Qu Hongbin from HSBC in Hong Kong.
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The challenge for policy makers and the market is to figure out what will work for them.
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Attention of the market place is also turning to the Federal Open Market Committee monetary policy meeting of the U.S. Federal Reserve, which starts Tuesday and ends Wednesday.
If no quirks are noted, we can conclude that the asset share is the policy's market value.
If an insured's health has deteriorated more than the passage of time would expect, the insurance company has dismal financial strength or some other pertinent issue is evident, this will have a direct impact on the policy's market value.
There is no mention of a Lib Dem pledge to repeal the controversial Digital Economy Bill, passed in the dying days of the Labour government, and on the funding of high speed broadband the Conservative policy of relying on the market with possible help from the BBC licence fee, appears to have held sway over the Lib Dem landline tax proposal.
In the area of monetary policy, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) has moved aggressively, cutting its target for the federal funds rate by a total of 225 basis points since September, including 125 basis points during January alone.
Obama would face a choice: replace the mandate with a new policy or remove the remaining market reforms.
You are bound to keep0 being inundated with clarion calls for QE3 as the knee jerk policy needed to stabilize the stock market and prevent further job losses.
He said he sees firmer prices next week, supported by physical demand and the underlying support of ultra-loose monetary policy by the Federal Open Market Committee.
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"The biggest risk for the current bull market is a policy mistake by the Fed, or the European Central Bank, or the Bank of Japan, or the European Union, and we got a good sneak preview of that with Cyprus, " said Burt White, chief investment officer at LPL Financial in Boston.
The fine distinction in the NIH policy created the possibility of a private market for supplying stem cells for publicly funded research.
When the Federal Reserve Board published its recent meeting minutes revealing dissent regarding the current policy of quantitative easing, the stock market took a tumble.
Banks and property developers led the gains, a sign that recent concerns over Beijing tightening policy over towards the property market were fading.
Labour may have given up its attachment to public ownership and controlling large parts of the economy, but its first instinct is still to distrust the market as a policy tool.
Also, the market began working its way higher again after a policy statement following a U.S. Federal Open Market Committee meeting Wednesday showed that the Fed intends to stick with its accommodative monetary policy, said Sean Lusk, gold and silver analyst with Ironbeam.
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If, after the Christmas break, the interbank market still stutters, central banks will continue to have a problem transmitting their monetary-policy message to the market.
But since most listed companies pay no or low dividends, the policy is hardly a market-booster.
Many investors now are looking ahead to Friday's May U.S. employment report as a potentially important point for Fed policy and the market.
This means creating an appropriate investment policy, implementing that policy using low-cost index funds, and following the policy through during all market conditions.
The FOMC is expected to make no major monetary policy shifts, but the market place will be very closely scrutinizing wording from the FOMC statement issued following the meeting.
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Bear in mind, also, that in making the global capital market a safer place, the policy-reform agenda goes far beyond the extent to which developing countries should encourage or discourage particular sorts of inflow.
Some of the bulls listed the likelihood of further loosening of monetary policy by the European Central Bank down the road and potential for the Federal Open Market Committee to hint at more possible easing in the U.S. when policy-makers meet next week.
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Finance Minister Masajuro Shiokawa said on Wednesday that the three economy ministers and BOJ governor had "decided on a policy aimed at boosting the stock market".
The 2005 Energy Policy Act gave FERC the authority to prevent market manipulation in the energy markets.
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He added that if the government were to begin wielding the American market as a foreign policy weapon in this way, it might be hard to the draw the line when considering the option down the road.
So far, the much-anticipated Fed policy statement is a dud for the market place.
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