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Others seek comfort in the expectation that Trump’s wildly contradictory plans – lower taxes, while raising infrastructure spending; helping the neglected working class, while slashing welfare and repealing the Affordable Care Act – will suck his administration into a swamp of infighting, incoherence, and incompetence.
Voters of the center or even the center-right are disappointed, too, by their president’s lack of charisma, if not sheer incompetence.
Keynesian economics, in turn, abstracted from the problem of official incompetence and corruption by assuming that governments were run by omniscient, benevolent experts.
But with more information, it is within our power to prevent those deaths that are caused by our own complacency or incompetence.
In many areas, frustration with inter-governmental intransigence and incompetence has sparked extraordinary innovation by non-governmental organizations, corporations, and ordinary people.
The Brexit talks themselves, when they finally began, were hampered by the incompetence of the ministers put in charge.
Corruption, special interests, and sheer incompetence are common problems.
When hurricane Katrina struck America’s Gulf Coast, that incompetence proved fatal.
Of course, the Bank must do everything that it can to ensure that its money is well spent, which means fighting both corruption and incompetence.
The hunger for change in Mexico, and the outgoing administration’s incompetence and loss of credibility, probably made AMLO’s victory inevitable.
Good roads are an indicator of government effectiveness, while bad ones suggest incompetence.
Half the explanation lies in the weakness and incompetence of John Major.
A key question is whether the Palestinian masses, fed up with their leadership's bickering, corruption, and incompetence, could make their wishes known to find an end to a conflict that has cost them so much.
Given such incompetence, it is not surprising that subsequent reforms were far-reaching.
What Ukraine needs is a sharp reduction in corruption, as well as real legitimacy (through the ballot box) for people who want to rein in the influence of oligarchs – a group that has sapped the economy through plunder and incompetence over the past two decades.
Likewise, whereas Bush was hailed as the first “MBA president,” corruption and incompetence have reigned under his administration, from the botched response to Hurricane Katrina to its conduct of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Moreover, the situation was exacerbated by the incompetence of the region’s authoritarian regimes, which have been unable to provide their young people with any prospects beyond repression.
And there is the experience of Ukraine’s “Orange Revolution” in 2004, which failed a few years later due to the estrangement, incompetence, and corruption of its leaders.
Bolstered by the Oslo Accords and the establishment of the Palestinian Authority (PA) in 1994, Fatah’s popularity among Palestinians has drained away over the past decade, sapped by charges of corruption and incompetence, as well as by the eruption of the second intifada in late 2000.
Pascual is accused of behaving like a “Proconsul,” after Mexican authorities – due to incompetence or irresponsibility – assigned him that role.
They argue that recent events have shown that JPMorgan is too big to be managed well, even by CEO Jamie Dimon, whose fiercest critics do not accuse him of incompetence.
But Yeltsin’s bold decree was, in some ways, superfluous: the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), once a fearsome organizational weapon, had already been decimated by its own incompetence and brutality, to the point that the public was simply indifferent to it.
But it has been granted something of a reprieve, thanks to Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May’s sheer incompetence during the recent parliamentary campaign.
That war of choice quickly became very expensive – orders of magnitude beyond the $60 billion claimed at the beginning – as colossal incompetence met dishonest misrepresentation.
Are we heading toward a world united by shared incompetence and inadequacy?
The corruption and inefficiency of the state apparatus and the government's incompetence and inertia leave no hope for a real improvement in living standards.
A large majority of Mexican voters continued to suspect it of corruption, authoritarianism, and economic incompetence.
They believe that government intervention tends to generate its own costly failures because of bureaucratic incompetence and rent-seeking, whereby private interests try to steer policy to their own advantage.
Meanwhile, SOEs – which can invest in excess capacity, record net losses (often through corruption and incompetence), and count on government subsidies – never face a reckoning.
Only when Iran’s voters lost patience with Ahmadinejad’s incompetence and elected Hassan Rouhani in 2013 could the Islamic Revolution be said to be over.
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