We should welcome those with pro-Palestinian, anti-Israeli policy bias as a counterbalance adding to the marketplace of free ideas.
Although it no longer adopts a formal policy "bias" toward raising or lowering rates, the Fed has taken to communicating its intentions through a "balance of risks" statement.
We think the People's Bank of China will be flexible in fine-turning and its policy bias has shifted to neutral-easing.
C1 Fed Ends Rate Bias Policy The Fed will replace its practice of declaring a policy bias toward raising or reducing interest rates with an assessment of inflation risks.
I would like to see the policy bias shift in the following directions: Against large financial institutions, giving them less favourable tax treatment and higher capital requirements.
The statements did not reveal a clear policy bias between growth and inflation, an ambivalence that some analysts say underscores nagging concerns that inflation in China could rebound.
Mr. Greenspan's speech, and interviews in recent days with other Fed officials, suggest that at its next meeting, the central bank's policy-setting committee, will drop its policy bias toward higher rates.
And it held to its policy bias toward further rate reductions, concluding that "the risks are weighted mainly toward conditions that may generate economic weakness in the foreseeable future".
There is nothing wrong with faculty members at Columbia University having a pro-Palestinian, anti-Israeli policy bias, so long as they don't intimidate or punish students with opposing views.
