Barring true disaster (something like the Weimar inflation) what happens to the macroeconomic indicators seems to make very little difference over time.
We're already seeing real global cooperation to prevent true disaster, such as early October's coordinated rate cuts by the Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, the Bank of England and the central banks of Sweden, Canada and Switzerland.
And I think one of things we have to do is to clean up politics and to make it once again the situation that people can believe what they hear because I think the true disaster of this election was the non-vote and the number of people who said to me in the course of the campaign, but we can't believe anybody anymore.
Still, what continues to amaze are the many Americans who will find themselves facing true economic disaster as they enter retirement and yet have, these many years, supported the policies of politicians that cheered the income inequality that has created this crisis as somehow being the true expression of American style capitalism.
And five days on, there is scant idea either of the true toll of this disaster.
It's true that deflations have sometimes accompanied economic disaster, but also economic triumphs.
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It took a natural disaster to awaken government to its true purpose: providing for citizens what no one else can provide.
The same holds true in Japan prior to the Fukushima Daiichi disaster.
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Yet it is also true that if improperly managed, the surge of international donations into a disaster zone can do great harm.
And it's true of drilling in the deep ocean, which, as the 2010 disaster in the Gulf of Mexico showed, we obviously haven't figured out quite yet.
But will this create the true urgency required to come to the best resolution, or lead us to disaster with each side blaming the other for the results?
There is true devastation in some New York neighborhoods, and the nearby New Jersey coastline is a shocking disaster.
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