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But recent OECD research suggests that rich countries are also at fault for failing to devise and enforce adequate laws to track and prevent illegal money transfers.
Others argue that our individual psychological makeup is at fault: we depend on food as a means of manipulating our environment.
But bilateral treatment of the issue threatens to do just that: to divide Europe along the same fault lines as did the war in Iraq.
It was not monetary policy’s fault, argued both former Fed Chairmen Alan Greenspan and Ben Bernanke; if anything, they insisted, a lack of regulatory oversight was the culprit.
These include higher capital ratios for systemically important banks, stricter supervision, limits on trading activity, pre-designated resolution and recovery plans, and taxes aimed not at “getting our money back,” but at internalizing externalities – that is, making those at fault pay the social costs of their behavior – and creating better incentives.
And it is not just the Yemeni state that is at fault.
It is not Germany’s fault that Italy and Spain had to tighten their budgets last year.
Bismarck would know who is at fault.
And the FSB’s confident assertion that “reforms have addressed the fault lines that caused the global financial crisis” will receive more support.
The Mufti of Jerusalem stated that "it's not my fault that Hitler hated the Jews, they hate them just about everywhere."
But is the EU’s budget calculation method also at fault?
The US is running external deficits because of a national savings shortfall, which once reflected spendthrift households but now is the fault of a feckless government.
Economically, it exposes the deep divide between those who believe that external imbalances are the fault of those who spend too little and those who believe that they are the fault of those who spend too much.
The abuse of minorities, and reactions to it, often are linked to fault lines in conflicted societies.
None of this is any individual’s fault.
Yet the program’s problems are portrayed in the press as “the UN’s fault.
Where Europe, Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, and Belarus rub up against one another, an economic fault line is forming.
What the EU does now to bridge this fault line will determine whether these countries westernize or stagnate.
Two years ago, a team of geophysicists led by Eric Calais of Purdue University predicted that the fault that produced the recent Haitian earthquake was at high risk of doing exactly what it did.
In the meantime, should a downturn come, it will not be Trump’s fault – at least according to Trump, who is already gearing up to blame the US Federal Reserve for raising interest rates and ruining all his good work.
The Kurds have a strong sense of collective history and national identity, and failed to achieve statehood after WWI through no fault of their own – even though the case for it was as persuasive as those of other groups whose national hopes were satisfied.
And yet, as in most settlements, BoA did not admit any fault.
The fault lies with how globalization has been managed - partly by countries, but most importantly, by the international community, including institutions like the World Bank, World Trade Organization, and the IMF, which are responsible for establishing the "rules of the game."
Gesturing at the mayhem caused by the destructive but self-regarding hero, before he “goes native,” she says, “This is your fault.
If the traditional political wife is vanishing, it is voters’ own fault: we set it up to be a thankless and infantilizing position.
The contest has exposed deep fault lines within American society and damaged the country’s global reputation.
And, in enforcing monoculturalism, China is also attempting to cover up the cleavages within the Han majority, lest the historical north-south fault lines resurface.
Failures, of course, were never Putin’s fault.
Clearly, the belief that liberalism is at fault for declining birth rates and dysfunctional families has gained currency in the West, which now produces popular books like Pat Buchanan’s The Death of the West.
Recently, however, that ideal has come under threat, undermined by its own political elite, which adopted a common currency while entirely neglecting the underlying fault lines.
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