"This stimulus obsession is the reason the nation finds itself in the fiscal calamity it does today, and the last thing we need is a leader at the helm of the Federal Reserve who is intent on more quantitative easing that harms our economy".
Last November, I wrote an article urging New Yorkers to eat in downtown restaurants to help ease the financial harm done by the blackout.
Just by trying to introduce it to a new audience, and to do so with maximum ease and minimum harm, "American Qu'ran" is an ambitious and valuable undertaking.
The Bush Administration described the policy shift, which could affect 44 factories and as many as 40,000 workers directly, as a humanitarian effort to ease the severe harm that the embargo has had on largely poor workers who took no part in the Sept. 30 coup against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
Plenty of clever people fret that quantitative easing does more harm than good for instance (see article).
These intuitions can be partially explained away by pointing to other morally significant distinctions (distinctions concerning intentions, difficulty or ease of avoiding the harm, etc) that often coincide with the distinction between doing and allowing harm.
Second, investor self-help can ease some of the harm from this poor tailoring, but at a cost.
While there is no evidence that the Americans, who said they were trying to rescue children in the aftermath of the earthquake, intended any harm, the ease with which they drove into the capital and scooped up a busload of children without documents exposed vast gaps in the system's safeguards.
Just brilliant" to support a 0.05 percent tax on transactions as an effective way to ease the budget without harming markets.
And the National Pediculosis Assn., a nonprofit group, has warned that easing school restrictions could harm efforts to halt the spread of what it calls a communicable parasitic disease.
