Gordian
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When so many lies – with so much political capital invested in their perpetuation – coalesce, disentangling them requires a swift coup, akin to Alexander cutting the Gordian knot.
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Add the two global challenges, and you have a
Gordian
knot: We have to produce much more energy with much less CO2.
Advocates of cutting the
Gordian
knot between private and public finance recognize that governments’ approach to banks must change radically if this separation is to work.
As Americans and others look at this
Gordian
knot of public policy problems, we should learn one thing from the example of Tony Snow: the vision of an “ownership society” espoused by Bush is simply not plausible.
There seems little chance that this
Gordian
knot can be cut in Chicago.
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