The Saudi response to the recent knee-jerk buoyancy of oil futures was to hold prices and hope to work off brim-full inventories.
Is not a knee-jerk, and its own quite up!
Senate majority leader Trent Lott called my initiative a typical knee-jerk reaction, and Tom DeLay accused me of exploiting Columbine for political gain.
It seemed to be some sort of knee-jerk reaction to tradition, throwing away the controls and standards in favor of anarchy.
But if republicanism is to survive in Britain it needs to get over such knee-jerk reactions and recognise the visual cunning that is monarchy's secret weapon.
As a result regulators and creditratingagencies promised to avoid knee-jerk reactions to mark-to-market losses.
"We don't want to make knee-jerk changes, we want to be thoughtful about it," he says.
