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"If you don't intervene, the speculative forces could be self-reinforcing, which is that exporters would defer bringing their receipts in and importers would buy forwards," he said.
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"If you don't intervene, the speculative forces could be self-reinforcing, which is that exporters would defer bringing their receipts in and importers would buy forwards," he said.
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People sort themselves—whether consciously or not—into congregations with politically simpático members, through a self-reinforcing process.
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
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Kuran and Sunstein defined the term as a “self-reinforcing process of collective belief formation by which an expressed perception triggers a chain reaction that gives the perception increasing plausibility through its rising availability in public discourse.”
The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011
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Combined with the self-reinforcing nature of online communities and a content-starved, cash-poor journalistic culture that gravitates toward neat narratives at the expense of messy truths, this disdain for actualities has led to a world with increasingly porous boundaries between facts and beliefs, a world in which individualized notions of reality, no matter how bizarre or irrational, are repeatedly validated.
The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011
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Indeed, it got much worse, not just because it was enforced by law but because it was mandated by self-reinforcing societal pressure.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Bruce Bartlett’s Attack on Libertarianism 2010
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They are both part of a larger set of rights, usually denoted by the term ‘self determination’, that are self-reinforcing not self-defeating.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Violent Misdemeanants, the Right to Bear Arms, and the Right to Vote 2010
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Like big paychecks before it, lower pay for bankers is for now becoming a self-reinforcing cycle.
Believe It: Bankers' Pay Takes a Tumble Dennis K. Berman 2011
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Moreover, even a small gender imbalance (2% spread, say) can have a very large effect because it is self-reinforcing.
The Volokh Conspiracy » A Thought on American Jewish Demography 2010
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Moreover, even a small gender imbalance (2% spread, say) can have a very large effect because it is self-reinforcing.
The Volokh Conspiracy » A Thought on American Jewish Demography 2010
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