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The surprisingly strong economic reports should reduce pressure on the Bank of England's governor, Mervyn A. King, to further expand a policy of quantitative easing — essentially buying assets to flood the market with liquidity — a move to offset the economic effect of government budget cuts.
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The Dutch flagship carrier, which is seeking a merger partner after talks with British Airways recently broke down, also moved to offset the higher cost of fuel with a fare increase of 4percentt starting Wednesday in its home market and an increase in the fuel surcharge on cargo rates.
Huh? Huh?" You might think that by now people would have gotten the conditional nature of the claim: fiscal expansion has a positive effect if the economy is depressed and monetary policy won't move to offset it — typically, if the economy is in a liquidity trap.
Their argument is that in the current environment of near-zero interest rates, fiscal deficits are unusually cheap to finance and monetary policy is not going to move to offset much (if any) of the effects of fiscal policy on the economy.
We don't know how audiences will respond to San Andreas yet (although we can bet on critics mentioning the connection to the Nepal earthquake repeatedly) but Warner Bros has made one smart move to offset any negative publicity.
The FTSE turned a near 80-point loss into a 17-point gain on Monday as investors speculated that Beijing will move to offset further bad news from its manufacturing sector on Wednesday with a package of measures to help exports.
Sheffield could merely be playing hard to get, knowing that Steinbrenner is perhaps desperate to make a major move quickly to offset the publicity the Red Sox generated in obtaining Schilling.
But Pfizer moved quickly to offset the recommendations.
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