While Germany pursues tight fiscal discipline, wage moderation, export and supply-side-driven growth, France has used more consumer demand and deficit spending to post its moderate growth rates.
Instead, Mr Abe has pursued tighter relations with Japan's powerful neighbour to the north.
At the same time, the Obama administration has faced consistent obstacles from Republican critics in pursuing tighter regulatory limits on air pollution.
Some saw the "corporate citizenship report" issued by the company as ammunition to use against Ford and the rest of the auto industry in pursuing tighter regulations in Congress.
At the daily White House briefing on Monday, a reporter asked Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Trump's press secretary, whether the shooting had "made the President think anything more about pursuing tighter gun laws... to prevent massacres like this from happening again".
I think that pursuing tighter integration as the solution to Europe's current problems is problematic for two reasons.
The Fed dissenters are obviously looking for excuses to pursue tight policies; they're looking at the facts only in search of support for their prejudices.
Germany is pursuing tight fiscal discipline, wage moderation, export and supply-side driven growth, while France has used consumer demand and public spending to post its moderate growth rates.
This is destructive from a global point of view: with much of the world economy still depressed, the last thing we need is major players pursuing tight-money policies.
This suggests that pursuing tight glucose control targets in those in whom it proves difficult to improve A1C is associated with higher death risk, even if insulin and oral agents are used appropriately.
