countervailing

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The purpose of macro-regulation is to act as a countervailing force to the natural decline in measured risks in a boom and the subsequent rise in measured risks in the subsequent collapse.

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  1. Equalizing; compensatory; requiting. Pain is the one supreme evil of the existence of the lower animals; an evil which (so far as we can see) has no countervailing good. F. P. Cobbe, Peak in Darien, p. 147.
  2. Countervailing duties in Great Britain, duties imposed on articles imported from the Isle of Man and other specified places in outlying British territory, to equalize the charges imposed on them with those imposed on articles manufactured at home or imported from abroad. Another such duty is the duty of 17s. an ounce on gold plate imported from abroad, and 1s. 6d. on silver plate, to countervail the charge made by the Goldsmiths' Hall for stamping those metals.

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  • Those from last night, passionate and compelling, or the countervailing ones from this morning, off-putting and frustrating and aloof? —  SeriasStarWarrior.HTML
  • The key difference between the situation today and the aftermath of the great crisis of 1929 is the absence of any identifiable constituency or agency capable of acting as a countervailing force to finance capital. —  Red Pepper
  • Only a strong countervailing media presence will make for positive change, as our initial efforts in Bangladesh suggest. —  CAMERA Snapshots
  • A countervailing factor is that a libertarian "seasteading" state might not be as free of the power of existing governments as Friedman supposes. —  The Volokh Conspiracy
  • The gay activists are clearly aware of these countervailing forces, and were probably not surprised to encounter their resistance. —  Philly.com - Latest Videos
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