Sentences with phrase «why at the time of crisis»

«Why at the time of crisis would you move HIDTA from its position of prominence and bring it into the Justice Department, where we don't know what will happen?»

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It seems bizarre that the most reasonable understanding of why the 2008 bank crisis did not require a vast public subsidy for Wall Street occurred at Monday's Republican presidential debate on June 13, by none other than Congressional Tea Party leader Michele Bachmann — who had boasted in a Wall Street Journal interview two days earlier, on Saturday, that she voted against the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) «both times.»

Every time I pick up my kids from school only to discover that they've been chowing down on brownies or chocolate - covered Oreos or candy (which seems to happen at least twice a week), I can't help but think: In the midst of an obesity crisis, why are other people being allowed to shovel my kids full of unhealthy food at school?

Yes, there has been some media coverage of the people at the sharp end of London's housing crisis but I have lost count of the amount of times I've heard people say things like «Well I can't afford to live in central London, so why should they get to stay?».

He asked where Gordon Brown had been, and questioned why the chancellor always seemed to «disappear» at times of crisis, citing not only the current police probe, but the rebellion over trust schools and the vote on the war on Iraq.

It's not clear why, but the buffering theory holds that people who enjoy close relationships with family and friends receive emotional support that indirectly helps to sustain them at times of chronic stress and crisis.

We know about an investing strategy that beats Buy - and - Hold in 102 out of 110 time - periods, an investing strategy that permits us to obtain far higher returns at dramatically less risk, an investing strategy that permits us all to retire years sooner and that would bring us out of this economic crisis if we could share it with millions of middle - class investors (if people could switch to an investment strategy that would put their retirement plans back on track, they would feel free to start spending again and businesses could start hiring again), and our first reaction is to come up with convoluted arguments as to why the best thing to do is to AVOID learning more about it and to AVOID getting the word out to the millions of middle - class people whose lives we have destroyed with our promotion of Buy - and - Hold.

But why is this happening now at this time of crisis?

Why does the list not include economists like Amartya Sen of Harvard University, also a Nobel prize winning economist whose career is devoted to promoting well - being particularly among the world's poor (he had an op - ed a couple of days ago in the NY Times re: the food crisis); or Joseph Stiglitz of Columbia University, also a former World Bank chief economist and Nobel prize winner who is critical of the globalized free market apparatus run by the World Bank, the IMF and the WTO; or Herman Daley of the University of Maryland, also a former economist at the World Bank whose career is devoted to developing a sustainable economy within the ecological constraints of our environment.