White House Prop Cost Taxpayers Thousands

He fetched a few cushions to prop up her head.

This poor kid, clearly a prop don't get me wrong, a willing prop but the kiss that's being documented kind of looks like it sucks.

Anything to prop up the country's economy.

Rulers relied on loyal tribes and narrow cliques to prop up their regimes.

For those who benefit from the politics of ambiguity, international law is an indispensable prop.

True, even as exports have collapsed, the government has managed to prop up growth with a huge spending and credit expansion.

With America's loss of interest the chief prop of neo liberal policies has been pulled away.

But if they buy more, in an attempt to prop up the dollar, they will only have a bigger version of the same problem.

In the meantime, no one can predict the ends to which Putin will go to prop up his presidency.

Since Libya achieved independence in 1951, it has been a fractured state. Rulers relied on loyal tribes and narrow cliques to prop up their regimes.

The IMF did not want Russia to devalue, and it provided billions of dollars to prop up the exchange rate.

Citizens are aware of the hundreds of billions of euros and dollars that have been used to prop up banks.

Do we want to live in a system where profits are private, but losses are socialized, where taxpayer money is used to prop up failed firms?

In addition, it takes the heat off an undervalued currency as a prop to export growth, giving China considerable leeway to step up the pace of currency reforms.

On the Monday after Putin s Crimea adventure began, the Central Bank of Russia reportedly spent 11.3 billion to prop up the ruble.

In Asia, as in the Middle East, US strategy was to prop up dictators against Communism until their own people toppled them.

To the extent that it is used to prop up declining industries, the stimulus could even prove harmful by delaying necessary adjustments.

You give me a drawing, you give me a prop to replicate, you give me a crane, scaffolding, parts from Star Wars especially parts from Star Wars I can do this stuff all day long.

Although this plan would prop up the value of the financial system as a whole, it would still allow market forces to determine relative share prices of individual banks.

Do people think it is easy for a 12 trillion dollar economy to spend beyond its means year after year just to prop up other countries reputations for stability?

One reason why Flemish Belgians resent having to prop up the Walloons with their tax money is that they regard them almost as foreigners.

President Barack Obama, acting as if the latter scenario remains likely, is betting on large scale government spending to prop up the real economy.

The first misconception is that he desperately sought Chinese aid to prop up his regime in the face of seething discontent after botched currency reforms.

Changing the rules of the game to prop up personal rule would help perpetuate weaknesses such as a lack of accountability, and prevent important government policies from becoming entrenched as state policies.

In the early stages of this precarious succession, China has behaved as expected, trying to prop up the regime in order to ensure stability in its nuclear armed neighbor.

One example of this was the attempt to prop up heavy industries using an import substitution strategy based on what I call the old structuralism, or Development Thinking 1.0 .

Two other destabilizing developments emerged in the last quarter of the twentieth century a strong incentive to use debt to prop up demand, and a shift toward financing public debt through private institutions at market prices, under the pretext of fighting inflation.

China is being pressured to halt its interventions to prop up the US dollar in world currency markets, with opponents emphasizing how much harm the policy is causing to other countries.

If they do nothing and simply hold onto the dollars, their losses will only increase. But if they buy more, in an attempt to prop up the dollar, they will only have a bigger version of the same problem.

With the financial crisis, the Chinese economy s necessary adjustment towards more domestic consumption has become far more urgent. True, even as exports have collapsed, the government has managed to prop up growth with a huge spending and credit expansion.

As central bankers and finance ministers ponder how to intervene to prop up the dollar, they should also start thinking about what to do when the time comes to pull the plug.

The agreement also provides Iran with extensive relief from economic sanctions, which will fuel the regime s ability to support dangerous proxies throughout the Middle East, back a sectarian government in Baghdad, and prop up Syrian President Bashar al Assad s regime.

The federal government under both President George W. Bush and Barack Obama allocated hundreds of billions of dollars to prop up the mega banks, while allowing hundreds of these crucially important smaller lenders to fail.

President Barack Obama, acting as if the latter scenario remains likely, is betting on large scale government spending to prop up the real economy. If his administration succeeds, the chances that Africa will remain relatively unscathed will grow.

Domestically oriented macroeconomists look at the situation roughly like this at some point in the future, foreign central banks will become less willing to continue buying massive amounts of dollar denominated securities in order to prop up the greenback.

In Asia, as in the Middle East, US strategy was to prop up dictators against Communism until their own people toppled them. In the Middle East today, it is reckless and radical invading a country, wrecking its institutions, and expecting that freedom will grow in the ensuing state of anarchy.

Moreover, just as a command economy is invariably less efficient at resource allocation and production than a market economy, a general stimulus program will, in all likelihood, lead to highly inefficient allocations, effectively burning resources at a time when they are scarce and particularly vital to restart and re align our beleaguered economies. To the extent that it is used to prop up declining industries, the stimulus could even prove harmful by delaying necessary adjustments.

A word, a look, a reaction, a withdrawal, a criticism, a judgement.

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I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.

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A shark is a fish while a dolphin is a mammal.

A watershed is a tipping point, a turning point, a game changer.

A punch is just a punch. A kick is just a kick.