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The odds also favor terrorists, in that one success can compensate for multiple failures.
Indeed, credible investigations are rarely conducted in such cases, as a result of official failures or obstruction, and Europe’s leaders have not intervened to ensure that the rule of law is upheld.
The stress tests were meant to signal to the public that there was no immediate threat of bank failures.
Both failures have strengthened domestic terrorist groups.
Phishing attacks, in which an employee is duped into sending a password to a third party or clicking an untrusted link that installs malicious software, represent a hybrid of cultural and technological failures.
In the wake of the UN’s failures to prevent genocide and ethnic cleansing in Rwanda and Kosovo in the 1990’s, Kofi Annan worked with others to persuade governments to recognize a new responsibility to protect endangered peoples.
The continuing optimism of Fed forecasts, and the reluctance to force banks to shore up their capital – often clothed in too-big-to-fail-rhetoric – amounted to serious policy failures.
Given pollsters’ massive predictive failures elsewhere this year, no one should count on them to turn out until the votes themselves are counted.
These pervasive failures appear to be due mostly to governments’ inability to align their efforts with their country’s resource base and level of development.
There is plenty of blame to go around for these failures.
Government failures, Friedman argued, were greater and more terrible than market failures.
While Central and Eastern Europe has been the emerging-market region to suffer the most in the crisis, it has generally avoided the currency collapses, systemic banking failures, and spikes in inflation that were the staple of previous crises.
But, whatever the failures of particular British legislators, the issues go further than merely allowing voters to “throw the rascals out.”
Yet this system’s apologists and beneficiaries have the temerity to blame all these failures on “reckless capitalism” and “lack of regulation,” which they argue necessitates more oversight and regulation, which in reality means more corporatism and state favoritism.
All of these failures became fully manifest in 2005, when European governments watered down the Stability and Growth Pact’s rules to a degree that effectively made them optional.
For France, the consequences of Hollande’s failures will be much more dramatic than his political downfall.
In the last two years, Al-Qaeda’s increasing failures in the Kingdom have forced the surviving members to regroup across the border in Yemen.
Today, 50 years and 1,500 nuclear explosions later, we have an historic opportunity to learn from the failures of the past.
How many more chances will we have to learn from the nuclear failures of the past?
Within each country, the increase in inequality that we have seen in the past generation is predominantly a result of failures of social investment and changes in regulations and expectations, and has not been accompanied by any acceleration in the overall rate of economic growth.
After all, the worst security failures – for example, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, which dragged the US into World War II, and the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks – tend to arise from inadequate preparation.
Problems rooted in failures of domestic deliberation can be solved only through improved democratic decision-making.
Like its considerable economic successes, China's political failures are firmly rooted at home.
The most obvious example is climate change, which produces droughts and repeated crop failures, and thus mass-migration flows.
But we should be devoting as much attention to the microeconomic problems – such as poor incentives, market failures, and regulatory shortcomings – that led us into the crisis in the first place.
Misguided regulation or market failures that harm competition anywhere can burden the entire economy.
Given the failures of German leadership in Europe and the political vacuum elsewhere in the EU, Italy’s decision to raise its profile is surely right.
Any real-world economy is riddled with market failures, so a benevolent and omnipotent government could sensibly intervene quite often.
To understand the logic of state capitalism, it is useful to recall some early examples – not the socialist command economies or modern societies seeking to combat market failures, but ancient civilizations.
Sky-high property prices, the result of years of policy failures, have destroyed any chance for educated young people to buy homes.
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