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The question for any administration tempted to scrap or reduce stamp duty is how else it finds the money.

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“It may be tempting to wait to see the “whites of disinflation’s eyes” before looking to reduce the restrictiveness of policy further,” she said.

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The rehabs are often in locations that people might be tempted to travel to, such as beachside cities in Florida.

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It’s tempting to dismiss job-market reports as unreliable, but a better approach is to look at them differently.

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Many in Washington will be tempted to answer this nonsense in Brussels with a stridently anti-EU posture.

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