Word: straitjacketing
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...second answer is that if you want smaller government, you have to "starve the beast." Larger deficits increase the pressure for spending cuts. President Bush has actually said that deficits are a good thing because they put Congress in a spending "straitjacket." An essay by three conservative economists, including Nobel prizewinner Gary Becker, published in the Wall Street Journal in October, ranked starving the beast ahead of the Laffer Curve as a reason to cut taxes. But there is even less evidence that starving the beast works in real life than there is for supply-side theories. Two rounds...
...smashing visual effects--Tolkien's bestiary on the march in fantastical realms. In Return, the giant trolls, four-tusked elephants and flying, screeching serpents of Mordor will amaze adults and may startle small children. The spider monster Shelob, creeping up on Frodo and mummifying him in a silken straitjacket, offers a delicious horror-movie frisson...
...Roussely's job is at risk. Roussely, calling EDF "healthy, competitive and profitable," noted that government appointees on his board all signed off on his strategy. Plus ça change ... - By Peter Gumbel Everyone's Seeing Red Deficits are back in fashion. Shrugging off the E.U.'s straitjacket on borrowing for the third straight year, France and Germany last week all but admitted their economies wouldn't fit the tight rules in 2004. In the U.S., sweeping tax cuts and a costly war in Iraq brought a slide from surplus - that is so mid-'90s! - to a record $455 billion...
Although Zimbabwe’s land reforms often become political largesse to the president’s cronies, the root problem is individual rights violations from unconstrained, arbitrary government. Shirking the Golden Straitjacket of liberal economic policies that prevent political oppression and encourage economic development, Zimbabwe has donned the Incredible Shrinking Economy and the infamy of starvation amidst political tyranny. While unfavorable weather may diminish harvests, bad government is the real cause of hunger and famine. All of the 25 worst nourished nations of the world suffer under bad government and supposed “social rights” policies...
Here's my concern: though a reverse mortgage can be a good financial move under the right circumstances, it can also be an unnecessary straitjacket. Many seniors, hurt by falling yield payouts from their retirement accounts, are casting about for ways to maintain their standard of living. At the same time, lenders are marketing reverse mortgages more aggressively--all in all, a recipe for trouble. So here's what you (or your parents) need to know...