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The paper’s central premise was that Japan’s monetary and fiscal authorities had erred mainly by acting too timidly.
And when counseling Asian countries on how to manage the crisis, the IMF erred – not for the last time, it should be noted – in the direction of too much fiscal austerity.
A faster pace for rates hikes could have offset the slow start, but the ECB again erred on the side of caution.
The United States managed to get it right, albeit very slowly, whereas many European countries erred on the side of the status quo for a much longer time, if not systematically, as they refused to see that the region could be evolving in a direction contrary to what they deemed to be in their strategic interest.
To be sure, I must acknowledge that I erred in one respect, which I am grateful to Skidelsky for pointing out.
During the 1990’s, the US and Europe erred in treating Russia with benign neglect.
Unable to disentangle the global and domestic pressures suppressing inflation, a price-targeting Fed has erred consistently on the side of easy money.
Other studies have consistently shown rising rates of prevalence with each successive generation, and it is argued that, if older statistics were faulty, they erred on the side of underestimating the spread of mental illness.
Fifty-four percent of Americans now say that the US erred in sending troops, up from 24% at the start of the war in March 2003.
Moreover, while it is true that the US and India face terrorist threats, both have erred in their approach to dealing with them.
To be sure, markets might move those transactions from France and from French financial institutions, and, if the regulators erred – because the business was profitable and not destabilizing – French institutions would lose out.
Our leaders, from Levy Eshkol (and much more so Golda Meir) to Yitzhak Shamir, erred gravely in not seizing the earliest opportunity to arrange a territorial separation and a horizon of sovereignty for the post-1967 Palestinians.
They erred gravely in allowing Jewish settlers to have their way on the Biblical mountaintops, while Middle Israel looked the other way.
They erred gravely – and this is less often recognized – in discouraging the moderate Palestinian middle class, many of whom have quit the occupied territories, leaving behind a generation of young, ignorant, hungry, and angry warriors.
But the author erred in one fundamental issue: he misunderstood both the meaning of theatre and a crucial dimension of politics.
Persistently low employment and near-zero aggregate inflation do not suggest that they have erred on the side of profligacy.
Colonialists and African independence leaders erred when they ignored tribal preferences, rather than celebrating them and making them the cornerstone of a healthy democracy.
The European Commission, the European Central Bank, and the German government have erred in insisting on rigid enforcement of the EU Stability and Growth Pact, particularly the 3%-of-GDP cap on fiscal deficits.
The Obama administration erred in asking for too small a stimulus, especially after making political compromises that caused it to be less effective than it could have been.
Third, the Fed probably erred in exiting its zero-interest-rate policy in December.
But the author erred in one fundamental issue; he misunderstood both the meaning of theatre and a crucial dimension of politics.
It erred in giving too much credit, not too little, to poor countries, and by handing out credit according to political needs rather than by rigorous criteria related to fighting poverty.
The world erred in allowing North Korea to pass the nuclear-weapons threshold; it should not make the same mistake again.
Three decades ago, many erred in the opposite direction in their assessments of Japan.
The German government subsequently erred in dissolving the Treuhandanstalt after it had sold almost all eastern German firms to western investors.
"You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is really the only notable feature about the thing."
I have erred against every common-place notion of decorum; I have been open and sincere where I ought to have been reserved, spiritless, dull, and deceitful--had I talked only of the weather and the roads, and had I spoken only once in ten minutes, this reproach would have been spared."
She now found that she had erred in relying on Elinor's representation of herself; and justly concluded that every thing had been expressly softened at the time, to spare her from an increase of unhappiness, suffering as she then had suffered for Marianne.
Therefore, the duke erred in his choice, and it was the cause of his ultimate ruin.
Men and women die; philosophers falter in wisdom, and Christians in goodness: if any one you know has suffered and erred, let him look higher than his equals for strength to amend and solace to heal.""But the instrument--the instrument!