So is France also trying to offset the damage of excessive spending with good policy in other areas?
While no one would seriously object to peace and freedom in the Middle East, for example, it is a serious mistake to equate worthy objectives with good policy ideas.
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So they will be looking at a good trade policy with the United States and an area where they can get more investment to build their infrastructure.
With this, it can build on its role as a repository for good ideas, connecting research with policy audiences, and principally, as a relevant world-class organisation today and into the future.
Sadly, however, the 20 years of mostly good policy were reversed with the arrival of George W. Bush, and his successor, Barack Obama.
The problem with evaluating whether a given policy yields a good outcome is our lack of agreement about the right answer.
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Good pubic policy should not side with either longs or shorts.
Last but not least, here is my video on the origin of central banking, which starts with an explanation of how currency evolved in the private sector, then describes how governments then seized that role by creating monopoly central banks, and closes with a list of options to promote good monetary policy.
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Having grabbed the national ear with a good performance in Los Angeles, Gore has been bending it relentlessly with his strength: policy details.
It may not be good policy, but America can get away with it for a long time.
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That no-tax policy, along with free or discount shipping and good service, helped grow the company into a behemoth.
The Welsh government said it would offer insights from international experience and good practice with "expert analysis of key aspects of education policy in Wales".
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But the video also explains that Medicaid reform is good health policy since it creates an opportunity to deal with the third-party payer problem.
As Aaron says, it's difficult for small-business programs to identify businesses most likely to innovate or grow, and for good reason we may be reluctant to task policy makers with picking winners.
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Dr. STEPHEN COHEN (Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, Brookings Institution): Good to be with you, Scott.
Non-investors' opinions on this question are very similar, with 27% saying U.S. economic policy was excellent or good.
Fourth, I think the graph above shows that, given good economic policy and competent political leadership, a country can cope with a rather extended period of demographic decline without any noticeable problems.
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With fewer lobbyists, less media attention and hardly any policy announcements it provides a good opportunity to check the true condition of the Tory grassroots in a less febrile atmosphere.
There is one bit of good news: the economy will gradually improve on its own, even with ineffective monetary policy.
While taxpayers generally will be happy with any change that allows them to keep more of the money they earn, good tax policy should strive to reduce marginal tax rates on productive behavior.
And with the advice and conditions it attaches to its loans, World Bank lending arguably fosters good economic policy better than the private sector.
And far from dallying, the Fund has been in constant dialogue with the government during much of the last year, and even since the default on Brady bonds in September has offered financial support, provided Ecuador carried out agreed-upon policy measures and was making good-faith efforts to reach a collaborative agreement with its creditors.
With its fits and starts, its frustrating uncertainty, the Detroit rail is a good microcosm of transportation policy across the nation in recent years.
Expensing is good policy: Depreciating investment outlays over time for tax purposes delays deductions that lose value with time and inflation, understating costs and overstating (and overtaxing) real profit.
Ask any Mexican politician what his country's foreign-policy priority must be, and the response is the same: maintain good relations with the United States and improve the lot of migrants headed north.
On foreign policy, perhaps the most important issue, Mr Bush has transformed American policy in response to the terrorist attacks and (less noticed) has established good relations with the great powers of Russia, China, India and Japan.
NYPD's stop-and-frisk policy is extremely unpopular with minorities, who feel they often get stopped by police officers for no good reason.
With insurers dropping out of the market altogether it might be a good idea for those people interested in getting a policy to do so.
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