I think you will agree that the chain of events that began with my decision to go far from home for college and has culminated – so far – with the role I am playing today in U.S. economic policymaking is so unlikely that we could have safely ruled it out of consideration. Nevertheless, of course, it happened.
Evaluating the impact of the 2015 policies on the Italian labour market”, Questioni di economia e finanza (Occasional Papers), No 325, Banca d’Italia, March 2016. 3 For instance, Latvia’s total stock market capitalisation was 4% of GDP in 2013, which was the lowest rate  among the EU Member States. See “Capital Markets Union factsheet”, European Commission, 30 September 2015, p. 2.