The other one said, Overreaction! Overreaction!

Any right minded person would think this was an overreaction.

If we get 15 minutes of overreaction time, that's the limit.

When swine flu first appeared, the initial news caused a lot of overreaction.

She said, Do I get one five minute overreaction or can I get 10 30 second overreactions?

But also, if you have this belief and it creates a sense of fear, it leads to overreaction.

That is hardly an overreaction to a few rare cases. On the contrary, people are justifiably shocked at the steady stream of stories calling into question whether the companies that provide so many essential services in countries around the world deserve their confidence.

Wen s most contentious economic policy was the CN 4 trillion ( 586 billion) stimulus package that his government launched in response to the 2008 financial crisis. Though the policy succeeded in buttressing China s economic growth, it was widely criticized as an overreaction one that led to excessive monetary expansion.

Tighter US monetary policy could intensify the global credit shortage, thereby increasing pressure on Asia s economic and financial systems. Overreaction and herding behavior by market participants could trigger a sudden reversal of capital inflows, with a severe dollar shortage as occurred in 1997 and 2008 straining Asian banks and corporations.

Experience demonstrates the dangers that can arise when vulnerable powers act independently. One need look no further than Israel, with its penchant for overreaction on security matters, or Iran, with its insistence on enriching uranium, to see what can happen when an isolated power bases its actions on a sense of existential vulnerability.

Sino Japanese relations are particularly fraught, with two decades of economic stagnation in Japan and rapid growth in China fueling nationalist overreaction on both sides. Having become accustomed to outsourcing its security to the US, and despite having the world s third largest economy, Japan neglected to develop its own constructive diplomatic vision.

But the experts concern is notable and healthy, because the belief that markets are always efficient can survive only when some people do not completely believe it and think that they can profit by timing the markets. At the same time, this heightened concern carries dangers, too, because we do not know whether it will lead to a public overreaction on the downside.

But the world can be confident that the US will remain stronger, wealthier, and more influential in global affairs than China even in 2030. That argues against American overreaction, which could fuel the kind of self reinforcing downward spiral in bilateral relations that occurred between Great Britain and Germany prior to the conflagrations of the first half of the twentieth century.

If things do worsen even more, the world, like it or not, must be prepared to manage and even confront a scenario in which the Kim dynasty, and with it the North Korean state, collapses. Unfortunately, considering the current state of ill preparedness in terms of international coordination, there will be confusion, misunderstanding, and overreaction among South Korea, the US, and China to other actors behavior.

If, as appears increasingly likely, Mockus becomes president, his agenda promises to be prudent neither a leap into the void nor immobilized by the need for profound changes. Three issues will hold his attention initially the potent mafia subculture that has arisen over the last decade, the need to redirect a development model marked by extensive inequality, and avoidance of isolation and overreaction in the country s foreign relations.

But insufficient and sometimes counterproductive actions, coupled with panic and overreaction in financial markets, have brought some countries, such as Spain, which is a fundamentally solvent and strong economy, to the edge of the precipice, and with it the whole eurozone. In the immediate short run, nothing makes sense, not even a perfectly good public investment project, or recapitalization of a bank, if the government has to borrow at interest rates of 6 or more to finance it.