These Days, Even Out Of Office, I

And Whatever Their Publicized Angst Over Saddam Hussein's 'weapons Of Mass Destruction,' American And British Authorities Were Also Concerned About Violence In An Area That Harbors A Resource Indispensable For The Functioning Of The Word Economy. I Am Saddened That It Is Politically Inconvenient To Acknowledge What Everyone Knows: The Iraq War Is Largely About Oil.

Before I Met Ayn Rand, I Was A Logical Positivist, And Accordingly, I Didn't Believe In Absolutes, Moral Or Otherwise. If I Couldn't Prove A Proposition With Facts And Figures, It Was Without Merit.

Without The Triggers, That Tax Cut Is Irreponsible Fiscal Policy. Eventually, I Think That Will Be The Consensus View.

Now, I Only Play Very Occasionally, And In Fact, More Piano Than Clarinet Or Sax.

Given Our Inevitably Incomplete Knowledge About Key Structural Aspects Of Our Ever-changing Economy And The Sometimes Asymmetric Costs Or Benefits Of Particular Outcomes, A Central Bank... Need To Consider Not Only The Most Likely Future Path For The Economy But Also The Distribution Of Possible Outcomes About That Path. They Then Need To Reach A Judgment About The Probabilities, Costs, And Benefits Of The Various Possible Outcomes Under Alternative Choices For Policy.