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Their public pronouncements on the state of the economy provide a rallying point for conventional wisdom.
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The conventional wisdom about the economic and political rise of women is that an information intensive economy prizes the cultural and neurological traits of women more than men.
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When the economy collapsed in fall 2008, Republicans' arguments about the wisdom of tax cuts and deregulation were made suspect.
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Congress summoned Greenspan for his wisdom on a range of topics outside the overall health of the U.S. economy.
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More than ten years on, the wisdom of the fund's strategy is still in dispute. (If an economy carries a lot of short-term debt, high interest rates may wreak such havoc that the exchange rate collapses anyway.) But whatever its merits during the Asian financial crisis, the high-rate defence has little appeal today.
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As for immigration, which conventional wisdom often sees as the issue of greatest importance to Latinos, Barreto said that it falls behind the economy and jobs, not to mention education and health care, for most Latinos.
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But to be fair to both sides, I also question the wisdom of the idea that the current pullback in stocks is a sign that market players are concerned about the economy (or Greece, China, etc.).
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In an election sure to be about strength of voter turn-out, it may not, as conventional wisdom instructs, be all about the economy after all.
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