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  • And this followed 2009's injection of $1.5 trillion on mortgage backed securities in a QE1 manoevre that enbaled the mortgage sellers to turn around and buy the safer Treasuries that financed Obama's deficit.

    Robert Lenzner: Bernanke's QE1 and QE2 Pushed Stocks Skyward Robert Lenzner 2011

  • And this followed 2009's injection of $1.5 trillion on mortgage backed securities in a QE1 manoevre that enbaled the mortgage sellers to turn around and buy the safer Treasuries that financed Obama's deficit.

    Robert Lenzner: Bernanke's QE1 and QE2 Pushed Stocks Skyward Robert Lenzner 2011

  • But if, for now anyway, a hung parliament looks more likely than it did a month ago, that's surely because of Tory mistakes rather than any brilliant manoevre from the government or any game-changing shift in the underlying economic fundamentals.

    New Tory Tactic: Match Labour's Blundering 2010

  • It was Keith's back-stage warm-up manoevre, and Pete borrowed it.

    Grand Designs: Hangin' it Out There BikeSnobNYC 2010

  • But if, for now anyway, a hung parliament looks more likely than it did a month ago, that's surely because of Tory mistakes rather than any brilliant manoevre from the government or any game-changing shift in the underlying economic fundamentals.

    John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2010

  • Not unreasonably they fear this sort of (questionably legal?) manoevre may lead to other countries retaliating in kind.

    John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009

  • The path to power is built upon compromise and flexibility: Thatcher always knew what she wanted to do, but she was also aware, in her early years, of how limited her room for manoevre was - not least because not everyone in her cabinet was on board.

    The Limits of Reaganism 2009

  • The path to power is built upon compromise and flexibility: Thatcher always knew what she wanted to do, but she was also aware, in her early years, of how limited her room for manoevre was - not least because not everyone in her cabinet was on board.

    John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009

  • The path to power is built upon compromise and flexibility: Thatcher always knew what she wanted to do, but she was also aware, in her early years, of how limited her room for manoevre was - not least because not everyone in her cabinet was on board.

    The Limits of Reaganism 2009

  • Then again, as I've written before, outside the constitutional question, there was an opportunity for the Tories to form a de facto alliance with the nationalists that could have, if they had been bolder or more imaginative, revived centre-right politics in Scotland while also limiting the nationalists room for manoevre.

    John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2008

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