Confronted with an awkward problem, he responded with reason.

Western statesmen are right to congratulate themselves on averting an immediate major crisis.

Governments, international organizations, and people around the world are rightly focused on fighting it.

Netanyahu s demand that the future Palestinian state be demilitarized is just, reasonable, and necessary.

We committed ourselves to spending only what we have or can reasonably expect to have.

Indeed, the demand for bank participation is popular in Germany and justifiably so unlike the Irish rescue package.

Comparisons and contrasts with the Great Depression of the 1930 s have inevitably become a central part of that discourse and rightly so.

Had the question been posed in this way to parliaments around the world, I believe that TRIP s would have been soundly rejected.

Ukraine, reasonably enough, wants this agreement to be accompanied by an acknowledgment of its European destiny, and by clear steps towards reciprocal visa free travel.

There are not many human activities whose impact can reasonably be predicted decades, centuries, or even millennia in advance.

Equipped with sophisticated financial ideas ranging from the capital asset pricing model to intricate options pricing formulas, you are certainly and justifiably interested in building materially rewarding careers.

But, at this critical point, it is fair to ask the Fed for a much clearer message about what its strategy is, and what this implies for the future.

The strength of evidence and the potential magnitude of harm greatly exceed those of food contaminants or pesticide residues, which are appropriately regulated to very low levels.

In his recent speech to the annual, elite central banking conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, the Bank of England s Andy Haldane made a forceful plea for a return to simplicity in banking regulation. Haldane rightly complained that banking regulation has evolved from a small number of very specific guidelines to mind numbingly complicated statistical algorithms for measuring risk and capital adequacy.

So the entire world quite naturally assumed that any process of EU disintegration would start primarily in the crisis ridden European south (Greece, first and foremost).

But the passing from the national stage of Richard Lugar has properly rung new alarm bells not only among concerned Americans, but also among policymakers far removed from the US and its partisan battles.

But we must not confuse necessary with sufficient there is a danger that an exclusive focus on institutions that are too big to fail could divert us from more fundamental issues.

Haldane rightly complained that banking regulation has evolved from a small number of very specific guidelines to mind numbingly complicated statistical algorithms for measuring risk and capital adequacy.

Inventor, entrepreneur and visionary Ray Kurzweil explains in abundant, grounded detail why, by the 2020s, we will have reverse engineered the human brain and nanobots will be operating your consciousness.

Moreover, state power should be exercised reasonably, in good faith, and for the purposes for which it was conferred, with independent courts and judicial review of legislation ensuring that government does not exceed the limits of its authority.

Many of McNamara s critics assert rightly, I think that he stopped short of full understanding, that he sought to hold fast to claims of noble intentions that the record could not sustain.

We can reasonably disagree with MacAskill s decision, but we should acknowledge that unless there is more going on than appears on the surface he was motivated by some of the finest values we are capable of exercising.

We can reasonably disagree with MacAskill s decision, but we should acknowledge that unless there is more going on than appears on the surface he was motivated by some of the finest values we are capable of exercising.