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These actions are facilitated by chronic failures of global governance; for example, one-fifth of all fish taken from the ocean is caught illegally.
One of the biggest failures of the eurozone periphery is a loss in competitiveness, hidden by a wall of credit that has been leveraged from Germany’s balance sheet.
East African countries are also pushing integration projects ahead, and appear to have learned from past failures in the region, which were the result of hastily constructed, inappropriate, and overly ambitious structures.
That, in turn, merely drove down prices further, leading to more credit rationing, bankruptcies, and bank failures.
At worst, labor-market failures impose modest inefficiency costs on society, whereas capital-market failures harm society greatly, with workers, rather than the perpetrators of financial disaster, suffering the most.
Those failures arose from a consideration of various particular domestic interests, as well as a lack of readiness to take risks for a good cause.
But West Europeans remember their own traumas, including electricity grid failures and widespread blackouts.
But, as has been demonstrated in areas like air pollution, traffic congestion, spectrum allocation, and tobacco consumption, market mechanisms are often the best way for governments to address such failures.
But, again, government attempts to address market failures can themselves fail.
In general, the best government interventions target failures precisely – using cap and trade to put a price on air pollution, for example, or relying on the individual mandate to curtail adverse selection in health insurance – while letting market forces do the rest more efficiently than bureaucrats can.
Economic historian Harold James sets the Bush economic strategy in its historical context and hears dangerous echoes of past American failures.
Israel is more isolated regionally and internationally than ever, owing to Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu diplomatic failures.
Indeed, financial stress tests – designed to estimate the likelihood of bank failures in the event of bad economic news – are intended to be the equivalent of cardiac stress tests.
The inability of the official Dutch report to clearly accept responsibility for the failures of the Dutch Battalion underlines once more the bankruptcy of so many UN peacekeeping operations: they have no mandate to stop aggression forcibly, and they are supposed to be neutral.
On the one hand, the European Union and the United States despair at the myriad economic and political failures of the post-Mobutu DRC.
While building a better future financial regime, however, we must also deal with the severe problems caused by our past failures.
But the policy failures fueling this stock-market fiasco go back further, to the massive government-fueled surge in credit since the global financial crisis.
Every Indian and Pakistani government embraces the Kashmiri cause, both as a useful device to divert attention from their failures and because they fear what their publics might do if they were seen as surrendering to the traditional enemy on so vital an issue.
And, as past failures have demonstrated, education systems in much of the Global South cannot succeed alone.
Addressing the failures of modern capitalism will require strong leadership and extensive cooperation between businesses, governments, and NGOs.
Perhaps the most optimistic note came from the emerging markets: while the risk of globalization was that it implied a new interdependence, so that flawed economic policies in the US and Europe could torpedo developing countries’ economies, the more successful emerging markets have managed globalization well enough to sustain growth in the face of failures in the West.
Trump may try to spin these failures, especially as the capital inflows that are helping to push up the dollar’s value lower the federal government’s financing costs, thereby creating more room for Trump to pursue his fiscal policy goals.
There are many reasons for market failures.
Externalities are pervasive: the failure of one bank imposed costs on others, and failures in the financial system imposed costs on taxpayers and workers all over the world.
Alternatively, MBS’s authoritarian tendencies and embarrassing foreign-policy failures might provoke internal opposition, both from the traditional elites he has vowed to decimate, and from the sizeable Shia minority in the Kingdom’s Eastern Province, whose members may look to Iran as a protector.
The past director was one of Bush’s Texas political cronies, and the current director’s qualifications include a stint as commissioner for judges and stewards with the International Arabian Horse Association, where he was asked to resign for “supervision failures.”
Policymakers must periodically reassess their efforts and promptly abandon failures.
The series of international failures in this conflict so far is inexcusable.
The current crises in the United States and Europe – the result primarily of US capitalism’s inherent ethical failures, and to Europe’s dysfunction – might be seen as lending credibility to Spengler’s view of democracy’s inadequacy, and to his dismissal of Western civilization as essentially being driven by a corrupting lust for money.
Such cases seem to point to the return of a European past in which democracy’s failures gave way to more “expedient” forms of government.
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