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blind

(Concealed), adjective buried, camouflaged, covert, dim, disguised, hidden, imperceptible, indiscernible, latent, masked, obscure, out of view, private, screened, secreted, shadowy, sheltered, shrouded, unapparent, undetected, unexposed, unknown, unobserved, unperceived, unrevealed, unseen, unsuspected

blind

(Impassable), adjective barred, barricaded, blanked, blockaded, blocked, closed, dead-end, obstructed, sealed, shut, shut-off, stopped-up, without exit

blind

(Not discerning), adjective benighted, careless, deluded, headlong, heedless, inadvertent, inattentive, inconsiderate, indifferent, indiscriminate, insensible, insensitive, led astray, mindless, misled by deception, nescient, obtuse, oculis captus, rash, thoughtless, unacquainted, unapprised, uncomprehending, unconscious, unconversant, undiscerning, unenlightened, uninformed, unlucid, unmindful, unobservant, unobserving, unreflecting, unseeing, unversed, without insight
Associated concepts: blind allegiance, blind amendments

blind

(Sightless), adjective caecus, deprived of sight, dim-sighted, eyeless, feeble-eyed, groping, in darkness, visionless, weak-eyed

blind

(Deprive of sight), verb blight one's optical powwrs, destroy one's perception, extinguish visual discernment, make eyeless, make sightless, make unable to see, obstruct one's vision, render eyeless, render sightless, render visionness, ruin one's eyesight, strike sightless, strike visionless

blind

(Obscure), verb adumbrate, becloud, becurtain, bedim, befog, bemask, benight, blanket, blear, blur, blur the outline, camouflage, cloak, cloud, conceal, conceal from sight, cover, cover up, curtain, dim, eclipse, ensconce, envelop, hide, hide away, hide the identity of, hide underground, keep clandestine, keep out of sight, make innonspicuous, make indiscernible, make unapparent, make unperceptible, muddle, obfuscate, occult, overcloud, put in concealment, put out of sight, render dim, render invisible, render uncertain, screen, screen from observation, screen from sight, seclude, secrete, shade, shadow, shield, shroud, veil, veil the brightness

BLIND. One who is deprived of the faculty of seeing.
2. Persons who are blind may enter into contracts and make wills like others. Carth. 53; Barn. 19, 23; 3 Leigh, R. 32. When an attesting witness becomes blind, his handwriting may be proved as if he were dead. 1 Stark. Ev. 341. But before proving his handwriting the witness must be produced, if within the jurisdiction of the court, and examined. Ld. Raym. 734; 1 M. & Rob. 258; 2 M. & Rob. 262.

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As for the rest of the gap, Blinder and Watson say it's a "mystery.

Do Dems do it better? Nope

In the first chapter of the book, Blinder gets off to a promising start when he notes that "homeownership simply reached an unnatural high of 69 percent of all American housing units in 2004 and 2005--up from 64 percent a decade earlier.

In praise of stimulus and bailouts

Eighty percent of the CDS, Blinder says, were "naked CDS"--pure gambling contracts where the party insured didn't have any sort of "insurable interest" (ownership or other connection) in the item being insured.

After the Music Stopped: The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead

In After the Music Stopped, Blinder runs into the same problem the government faced when trying to explain what was going on in the panicky days of 2008: the financial system has become so complicated and technical that it takes a whole lot of work to understand exactly how we got into this mess.

After the Music Stopped

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Blinder argues that this transformation will happen more rapidly than workers will be able to adjust to it; so fast, in fact, that we should expect offshoring to be "one of the biggest political issues in economics over the next generation.

Job prospects: offshoring of American jobs: what response from U.S. economic policy?

Blinder praised Fed policymakers for their response to the market turmoil, namely the discount rate cut and injection of ample liquidity into the money market, but urged them to guard against downside risks.

Ex-Fed vice chairman urges 'aggressive' interest rate cut

As to what the central bank should reveal, Blinder lists the following: the goals of monetary policy; the methods of analysis; the decision making models; and immediate disclosure of decisions and votes, accompanied by a "balance of risks" statement.