And is there anything he's going to try to do to help the country understand that though he -- the U.S. government is trying to help, and others are?

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Third, the North Koreans may not have ever intended to attack, though we have no way of knowing, or they understand that the combined U.S.-South Korean forces would destroy North Korea should war begin.

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No post-graduate degree in economics is needed to understand why U.S. natural gas prices have plunged over 50% in the past few years.

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Foreign manufacturers who want a long-term presence in the U.S. market have a particularly compelling incentive to understand and comply with the rules.

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Wilson, who had more formal education than any previous U.S. president, failed to understand how determined British Prime Minister David Lloyd-George and French Premier Georges Clemenceau were to avenge their grievances against Germany.

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If there's a silver lining to the SEC's silly decision, it's that markets are global, and if U.S. regulators are too immature to understand the importance of price discovery and the short-seller's role in it, other global markets will take the trading volume that our SEC intends to repel.

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