Mr Friedman too left conveniently before the bubble: he ran Goldman Sachs until 1994 (partly with Robert Rubin, Mr Clinton's treasury secretary).
A sign offered passersby the opportunity to insert a coin in exchange for the privilege of whacking the barrel with a bat, which they'd left conveniently next to it.
Left conveniently unstated is the idea that the longer the PIIGS are forced to wallow in stagnant growth, the more persistent will be the very budget deficits and the larger the public debt to GDP ratios for which they are now being punished.
But I couldn't help feeling that Three Monkeys was an over-egged pudding, a film trying to be too many things in too many styles and moreover poised on the edge of implausibility: a certain murderous act, and subsequent cover-up, are left rather conveniently unexplained.
(They conveniently leave out how the mid-1960s backlash to the civil-rights movement pulled the Southern bloc away from the Democrats, but that's another point).
What you always conveniently leave out when promoting carbon taxes is that tax systems, more so than market systems, are prone to tweaks around the edges, giving free rides and special exemptions to favoured industries.
Word was swiftly dispatched to ringside and to the dressing rooms, and a "fight" duly broke out in the ring, as Rhodes and Kid Johnson swapped spirited blows in an exchange that would conveniently leave Johnson unable to continue at the end of round four.
Then, of course, there are the people who actually work for the companies being attacked (but conveniently leave that out — or do an anonymous comment).
They conveniently leave out the next verse: "Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church......
This lock allows homeowners to leave quickly and conveniently in an emergency.
