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" The Obama administration's zeal to not 'waste a good crisis,' as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton put it, has been stunning even for Washington insiders to behold. "

Elaine Chao

Crisis

Zeal

Waste

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" It's not coincidental that America's vigorous recovery in the early 1980s was led by a president who worked hard to unshackle growth in the private sector. "

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" Policymakers, elected and unelected, need to be ever-mindful that the U.S. economy does not exist in isolation. "

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