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As of 2005, just before the onset of the financial crisis, the Harvard econometricians James Stock (now a member of President Barack Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers) and Mark Watson concluded that the advanced economies had become both less volatile and less correlated with each other over the course of the preceding 40 years.

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Why were more people killed last month than in any preceding month of this conflict?

Rather than preceding the insurgency, the Taliban followed the troop deployment, and as far as I'm concerned, the troop deployment caused their return.

And the real tragedy was, if you look through her records, she had been seen in four or five other health care institutions in the preceding two years.

This is the percent of the population with any mental illness in the preceding year.

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