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Unpopular in his own lifetime due to his wretched excesses, his coins are among the most collected of any Roman emperor.

Even today stray board members speak out on excesses in our financial markets and grumble that inflation lurks around the corner.

My hope was that I should kill myself quickly with my excesses, and I think that this hope will not now be long in being realized.

There was something of a perfect storm in which policy mistakes combined with Wall Street's excesses.

Both of them are represented, let me repeat, in the ridiculous divorce separating our spiritual excesses and the ephemeral joys of the body.

sounded at once like an ironic comment on celebrity excesses and a straight bit of autobiography.

But dramatic though it was, the dot-com crash did not actually come close to erasing the excesses of the 1990s.

After many years of study and prayer, he devoted himself to preaching against what he saw as some of the excesses of the church.

Businesses' worst excesses must be restrained lest the public turn against the American capitalist system, Roosevelt and his allies argued.

The delicacy and playfulness of Rococo designs is often seen as a reaction to the excesses of Louis XIV's regime.

Compared with the excesses of today, scholars say, the early days of banking were a time of solid business ethics.

"So much of the revolution that created our legal system was a reaction to excesses of government in areas of press and speech, " he said.

Stick with a few clear rules, the thinking goes, and while you may not get a perfect result, you stand a chance of reining in some excesses.

"Bubbles are best identified by credit excesses, not valuation excesses, " he said in a recent appearance on CNBC.

As I said, banks went wild, in a scene strongly reminiscent of the savings-and-loan excesses of the 1980s.

That is unfair on the French president, who was careful to argue that he was trying to rescue capitalism from its own excesses.

In short, Marx painted a picture of the capitalism's excesses, but forget trying to replace it.

Some excesses have been abolished, such as flat-rate travel expenses often worth five times the actual cost of an air ticket.

Future generations are going to look at the way we make toilet paper as one of the greatest excesses of our age.

Is Preventive Diplomacy a reasonable policy tool to avoid civil wars, or at least the worst excesses sometimes associated with such wars?

The rivalries between the cast members, the excesses and the frustrations will slowly lead him to a surrealistic disaster.

But the couple's loyalty was no protection against the brutal excesses of the cultural revolution.

A mess has accumulated through years of household excesses, unregulated finance and woefully deficient government leadership.

Yet it was Papen, after all, who spoke out against Nazi excesses in a public forum, to the fervent cheers of his audience.

A refrigerated swimming pool and an artificially cooled beach - Dubai's latest excesses are enough to make conservationists weep.

And a reminder of the rage over Wall Street's dramatic excesses over the last five years.

But public revulsion at the excesses of the financial industry has been a wake-up call to companies in all sectors.

And then, in 1666, needing to save money, Charles decreed that court dress ought to be simplified from its previous decorative excesses.

Walking round the village to work off the excesses of the night before, I noticed that all the prices had been raised by 10 per cent.

Politically, he had wrung out of the Democratic Party some of the excesses that had kept it from winning elections.

Shakeouts are always necessary to cleanse the system of excesses in prices and spending that accumulate during any bubble.

He asked how, when millions were not able to feed themselves even once in a day, we [truth-warriors] could indulge in such excesses.

That markets are now stabilising could suggest that prices have fallen far enough to correct the excesses of the global housing bubble.

The years of political paralysis have done Japan more harm than the economic excesses of the 1980s.

Reform is certainly needed, yet, for all the excesses and instability of finance, a complete clampdown would be a mistake.

Those excesses cannot be attributed to any single nation.

Today's fiscal excesses are not the result of fiscal indiscipline, but of private indiscipline.

But it is also trying to curb speculative excesses and to tighten bank supervision.

If the big industrial countries had something at stake in curbing the excesses of currency imbalance, the prospects might be more positive.

Those who view liquidation of past excesses as the solution fail to understand the risks.

whether endogenous or iatrogenic , excesses of adrenocortical hormones have long been known to be associated with potassium deficiency.

The solution, both to prevent the excesses of praise and the humiliation of criticism, is to stop caring what other people think of you.

"At the end of this movie, it's clear that the Fed will have to care about excesses, " Mr. Barbera said.

My brother and I are going out to seek adventure. We require the company of a responsible person to make sure that we do not go to excesses.

He had a reputation for pragmatic bipartisanship and principled opposition to the excesses of the Bush administration.

At present capitalism is too often judged by the excesses of a few bankers.

Even without lending and borrowing excesses, though, our high rate of homeownership would likely create problems as the economy slows.

The spotlight being shone on the excesses of the corporate world will bring with it tougher regulation.

Despite investors' enthusiasm, industry experts arguethat the market has not seen some of the excesses that marked previous cycles.

Asia was a source of much of the supply: creditor nations ran enormous surpluses to meet these western excesses.

If it avoids the excesses that brought such pain to western banks, it could give China's capital markets a leg-up.

The excesses of Wall Street, blamed by many for the Depression, were reined in with the passage of the Truth in Securities Act on May 27.

Hence the fact that, in this tribal culture, nobody reined in the excesses of the structured finance teams at Citi and Merrill.

Meanwhile, because of the boom's excesses, there was always going to be big losers.

it will have taken us "back to basics" , rebalancing the spending excesses of the past ahead of the next round of excess.

Another "benefit" of a recession is that it purges the excesses of the previous boom, leaving the economy in a healthier state.

A devout man, he is sympathetic to Shia Islamism, though by no means blind to its excesses.

Yes, it's uncomfortable, with the economic growing pains made worse as we recall the excesses of the last debt-fueled business cycle.

As Mr Paulson admitted this week "there is not a single or simple solution that will undo the excesses of the last few years. "

British journalistic excesses can rightly be condemned, but the American media could use a few more of them.

But in an environment of financial liberalisation and innovation, the resultant excesses produced the disarray we see today.

This was part of the speculative excesses of the early 1990s that bankrupted the municipal government.

In a excesses and dislocation era, looking for the meaning of scale at the border dislocation is a common problem of environmental ethics.

Almost nothing has been done so far to right these wrongs, or otherwise rein in the excesses of the financial system.

Year 2009 will be a year of back to reality where excessive leveraging and excesses come back down to reality.

Having left Goldman worth about $700m, some saw it as hypocritical for him to express shock at Wall Street's excesses.

Banking is about the money; and no other familiar commodity arouses such excesses of passion and disgust.

Its disappearance has been blamed for some of the excesses that led to the current financial crisis.

Now such behaviour does not go unnoticed for long, even in a city as filled with excesses as Primordium.

A sense of justice, then, reins in people's other Darwinian instincts and curbs their excesses.

Measures such as tighter loan-to-value ratios or debt-servicing caps have been used across Asia to prevent excesses in specific sectors.

The power shift towards Asia will occur as a result of the excesses which America committed during the recent 25 years.

Looking more like a tank than a car, the Hummer for years seemed to embody the worst excesses of American consumerism.

Reich predicted that America's liberated excesses would be countered by repression, just like in Stalin's Russia.

Easy credit, combined with the faulty assumption that home values would continue to rise, led to excesses and bad decisions.

The excesses of Castro's apparatchiks during the cold war pale in comparison to the invidious exploits of the Boligarchs.

And I just increased my short positions on the investment banks last week, because that's where the excesses have been in the U.

Some of his party followers have committed silly excesses.

Many Syrians blame the president's brother, Maher Assad, who heads a crack army division, for the regime's excesses.

The ideological roots of the conservative era lay in a reaction to the excesses of the Keynesian consensus.

In the United States, the problems started with excesses and defaults in the subprime lending and housing markets.

The trial was a referendum on who bears responsibility for the excesses of the buy-out boom.

Global observers have been quick to blame the US, arguing that it's all about the excesses of Wall Street and America's subprime fiasco.

By today's standards, the excesses of Hollywood do not seem quite so spectacular.

In most of these cases, democratic excesses have undermined the national interest.

"At a minimum, the Fed's sensitivity to financial excesses must be improved, " Kaufman said.

They were blamed for the excesses of the Cultural Revolution, and Hua Guofeng was named to succeed Mao.

It is true that an economy growing as rapidly as China's can catch up to many of its excesses.

You could roll your eyes at her maudlin excesses and her spiritual imperiousness, but you couldn't deny her clout, or her courage.

The end result will likely be a new set of regulations and legislation designed to curb the "excesses" on Wall Street.

Mr. Zhu sounded upbeat about China's growth prospects in 2010 and said a slowdown in loan growth will prevent liquidity excesses.

Now it was happening again, as the right wing used the excesses of the sixties to obscure the good done in civil rights and other areas.

The Glass-Steagall Act was a response to the Wall Street excesses of the 1920s.

These, in turn, led to house-price bubbles and huge financial excesses, particularly in securitised assets.

Bank of America can justifiably claim to have stood back from the worst excesses of America's mortgage-lending boom.

The excesses gave the whole concept of family planning abad name.

Some undergraduate officials see in parents' separation anxieties evidence of the excesses of modern child-rearing.

Those of us who opposed the excesses of Sopa and Pipa need to prepare for the next round.

As my colleague, Martin Wolf, pointed out this week, one reason for the recent excesses of the credit bubble lies in how bankers are paid.

Hardly surprisingly, it views as foolish the excesses that led the west into so much trouble.

Despite the excesses of Ireland's time as a Celtic Tiger, the country has changed for the better.

Consumption excesses were built on the foundation of two bubbles, property and credit, which have burst.

For all its excesses, however, investment banking in Britain does not have the traits of a collusive industry.

The best strategy for many companies is to openly fake it, to poke fun at their marketing excesses and admit their inauthenticity.

it is only in its excesses that it becomes a grave evil.

Some university officials see in parents' separation anxieties evidence of the excesses of modern child-rearing.

Curbing the excesses of these powerbrokers is essential.

Despite some excesses, the Muslim Brotherhood has been tamed by being brought into the system.

These developments, together, contributed to excesses and ultimately resulted in severe market disruption.

Joe Gregory, Mr Fuld's deputy, was criticised by some colleagues for reinforcing rather reining in his leader's excesses.

The only discipline guaranteed to prevent fiscal excesses is market discipline.

America's wealthiest are subject to a ritual public purge whenever hard times hit and excesses come to light.

Indeed, rather than raising doubts about the emerging economies, the stockmarket excesses perhaps raise doubts about the markets themselves.

Consumer champions see this measure as more evidence that savers and taxpayers are bearing the burden of the banks' excesses.

Making foreign creditors pick up the bill for the banks' excesses in this way has spared Iceland's taxpayers and depositors.

But financial excesses existed centuries before a brick had been laid on Wall Street.

A number of commentators have warned of credit excesses and an overinvestment bubble, which they say could bring economic turmoil.

Last month a French magistrate launched an investigation into the excesses of three African leaders, including Bongo.

In a narrow Fed model a separate agency would decide when to use controls on risk-taking to target emerging excesses.

Eventually nearly all the charges were dropped, and the presiding federal judge apologized to Lee for government excesses.

Such excesses might be easier to accept if they were anomalies.

And Main Street is paying a penalty for the excesses and greed in Washington, D. C. , and in the Wall Street.

We will never know where the next bubble will form, what the next innovations will look like and where excesses will build up.

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

But should not be taken to strike machines, accounting machines and insist forcing their way port security and other excesses.

They fear that the economy is ' "beyond control" , prone to speculative excesses followed by clumsy crackdowns.

European and American governments will feel pressure to curb the perceived excesses of multinational corporations.

He presented plans to curb the fiscal excesses of national governments and introduce a joint "eurobond" to replace national debt issuance.

However, these excesses are becoming less popular with strict drinking and driving laws and today's preoccupation with healthy living.

With luck and good judgment some of the worst excesses of the financial system will now be reined in.

Walker argues that exposing pay structures for highly paid staff would discourage the excesses that fuelled the global credit crunch.

The monopolistic excesses of the Robber Barons led to antitrust laws.

The excesses, however, were mainly in the private sector, as interest-rate convergence generated economic divergence.

The ideal, rather, is one where the excesses of bubbles are moderated, not eliminated.

Officials like to think that these policy tools are a way of preventing wild excesses in the market.

As with many debt crises in emerging economies in the post-war period, the euro crisis was born of the preceding boom's excesses.

Dog: We are planning new financial regulations, (turning around), to save the economy from your greedy excesses! !

The recent bust was not, he argues, only or even mainly the inevitable consequence of bankers' greed or credit excesses.

For weary revellers, regretting the previous night's excesses, the Bloody Mary is the definitive lunchtime hangover cure.

Curbing the excesses of wealth, then, will be a side effect of regulations designed to make capitalism work better.

And regulators need to critically review the form of compensation to rein in excesses.

Nor is it suffering from the sort of fallout from financial excesses the US and the UK are facing.

Yet the very jubilant excesses that ensue often lead, at last, to the well-known post-Thanksgiving "holiday blues. "

For all the grandiose talk of curbing the excesses of laisser faire capitalism, the markets remain the masters.

The reason it has been difficult is first of all, these excesses have been building up for many, many years.

Would you mind scales are always balanced, not favoring no excesses, soothing mood.

The picture McKinsey paints is one of concentrated (albeit large) credit excesses rather than economy-wide debt binges.

Reorient investment priorities to avoid excesses and boost efficiency.

Among their ill effects, he contended, were sexual excesses, family conflict, disease, and insanity.

But his stylistic excesses have been obscured by the gauzy haze of history.

The top-notch rating played a key role in stoking the excesses of the credit bubble.

Yet while it could cope with external shocks, the global economy could not ignore its own excesses.

The anti-Semitic excesses of the Nazis merely foreshadowed the catastrophe which was to befall mankind in Europe.

The Dutch have suggested a commissioner in Brussels with power to veto countries' fiscal excesses, and to impose his judgments by law.

Policymakers should have intervened to curb the excesses but were hamstrung by free-market ideology.

This raises questions about where responsibility for financial excesses should lie.

It's an economy in rehab, you might say, working off the excesses and imbalances that created the crash of 2008.

Nor did he foresee the excesses committed in pursuit of the dictatorship of the proletariat.

We have also made huge progress in ending tax and regulatory havens and curbing the worst excesses in the financial system.

And the longer excesses persist, the harder the financial gravity will bring China's economy back to Earth.

the excesses of the past seven years will take more than a few good months to fix.

Asset price bubbles and associated financial excesses drove the Irish and Spanish economies.

revealed "the excesses of French society: money, individualism" .

But they did nothing about it; indeed, by keeping nominal interest rates low, they encouraged the credit excesses.

when the excesses of the financial system were noted, they called for self-regulation -- an oxymoron.

With globalisation, no economic model provides protection from the excesses of someone else's model.

After the excesses of the 2006 campaign, he has cut back massively on press access to the players - all of this means that he makes enemies.

Differences in population genetics can also result from historical deficiencies or excesses of nutrients in soils, plants and animals.

"He homes in on the excesses of the markets and profits from them. That's been his stock and trade. "

That can lead you to excesses prejudicial, in the two directions.

It is right to fight for the new teams and to save the competitive souls already in the pit lane from their own excesses.

OK, so it's January and you're feeling fat and broke after the excesses of the holiday season, but there's really no need.

They have only two vehicles: government and private financial deficits (excesses of spending over income).

Even Seema Boesky, whose ex-husband's name became synonymous with insider trading and the excesses of the 1980s, feels conflicted.

Institutional investors may limit pay excesses on the margin, but they are not going to check the broad trend.

The excesses of infrastructure and property investment were soon apparent.

It'll force us to choose, and in doing so, stop the excesses that have led to our economic problems, individually and as a society.

The worst of the excesses of the period stopped, but Hua vowed to continue Mao's policies.

Having someone to balance your excesses can help you avoid blind spots and potential mistakes.

Asia has an opportunity to save itself, and the world economy, from the crushing excesses of Wall Street.

Consumed in food and added to the effects of sugar and simple carbs, serious excesses can result.

Concerns for uncontrolled excesses of individual amino acids.

Can we improve our outlook on life despite the excesses of our society?

Both religion and science have become self- consciously aware of their excesses, even of their capacity for evil.

Financial excesses often occur in the aftermath of innovation: think of the dotcom bubble or the 19th-century railways boom and bust.

Higher tax rates are destructive to growth and would ratify the recent spending excesses.

But one thing is for sure: as with previous booms, signature deals will come to epitomise its excesses.

Forcing banks to adopt higher capital ratios may curb speculative excesses.

But its flagship property developer, Nakheel, has become the symbol of Dubai's past excesses and present troubles.

to speculative excesses followed by clumsy crackdowns.

That's why we need an activist government to stimulate the economy, create jobs, and protect the public from their excesses.

After those excesses, a period of private sobriety and public austerity may prove to be no bad thing.

bidding in small, Lapin old "manager" , and it is hard to accept "defeat" are often not rational, not with the excesses.

Commit no excesses in your religion: Nor say of Allah aught but the truth.

They believed markets would correct their own excesses, so designed the rules only to rein in public sector excesses.

"We received the information in advance, because the battalion is loathed by the local population for its excesses, " said an SSA officer.

True, the politicians on Capitol Hill are guilty of producing the bill's worst excesses.

The Japanese real estate market has yet to fully recover from its 1980s excesses.

Trade disputes are smouldering and China won't be permitted to export its excesses.

But the slump came from financial excesses, not poor productivity growth.

Mr Quattrone, for some, embodies the excesses of the irrational exuberance of the 1990s.

The benchmark Hang Seng Index is trading at about 22 times next year's earnings, comfortably below the excesses of the tech frenzy of 2000.

According to the usual political reflexes, such regulatory excesses by Brussels' eurocrats would normally immediately lead to trouble.

The Signore's excesses are seen with a kind of bemused complicity, even pride.

The events of the last year have exposed excesses and flaws that are, to put it mildly , humbling.

Many blame the US for financial excesses that triggered the meltdown.

Bush's excesses revealed the limits of US military and economic power.

Except, in this case we're talking about protesters who are denouncing the excesses of capitalism.

Wall Street never quite matched Tokyo's valuation excesses.

Excesses during bubble times lead to mistakes, big losses and ultimately the unveiling of frauds .

Yet ordinary people feel they are paying for the excesses of others, so many support the protesters.

Twain made people laugh at the excesses of the rich.

And moral ends, in this case, are distinct from any excesses they occasion.

He homes in on the excesses of the markets and profits from them.

But there can be no return to past practices and past excesses.

India needs a period of slower growth to reduce these excesses and this requires higher interest rates.

But he has also acknowledged excesses in the stimulus program and spoken of the need to find other ways to keep growth going.

So regulators cannot count on the market to correct its excesses.

Instead, central banks should permit some short-term cyclicality in order to purge the system of excesses.

By some analyses, the 1990s will be an anxious era of dues paying for the excesses of the '80s.

The peculiar property of truth is never to commit excesses.

He spends too much money; his excesses put him into debt.

But debate continues about whether that loss is due to regulatory excesses in America or improvements in other financial centres.

Still, we have stained ourselves, again after the 2008 debacle when our excesses in the financial system almost did the world in.

China is indulging in all of the same excesses as Japan and Korea, and then some.

The market is mercilessly correcting the excesses of the past.

It is encouraging that in real terms, the market excesses of the past decade have not matched those of the 1920s.

7, Forcing banks to adopt higher capital ratios may curb speculative excesses.

But these excesses are built on obvious appetites.

If you highlight excesses, you may find that fingers turn on you.

Considered from the village, however, these excesses seemed easier to overlook.

No question part of the crisis came about because of excesses in lending in the housing market.

A good place to start is with ourselves, by working to change our habits and curb our excesses as individual consumers.

And we are doing the critical work of shoring up our financial system so that it protects investors and curbs excesses.

In such places, perhaps the best that can be hoped for is that conscientious policing will rein in the worst excesses.

The share-price excesses of the 1920s were widely blamed.

In particular, geochemists look for excesses of 26Mg in meteorite minerals that contain abundant aluminum but not much magnesium.

Japan did have some inflation during its "lost decade" , courtesy of China's boom, which soaked up Japan's excesses.

Most condemn such excesses and have, in the past, generally professed an aversion to politics.

tried to avoid engaging in emotional excesses such as hysteria and fits of temper.

I'm not proud of our own excesses.

Mindful that not everyone is ready for such excesses, she is adding black, navy and brown options in September.

His excesses at parties are well known.

He who would live long avoids excesses.

What about the bad debts left behind by past excesses?

The view is widely held, particularly in the US, that the world needs a big purge of past excesses.

Now we're seeing the reaction to those excesses.

Symmetry is unfashionable in some fields now, in reaction to excesses in the past.

Florida, with a long history of property booms, played its full part in the subprime excesses.

By using tools like bank-capital rules and credit controls, they can try to prevent excesses building up again.