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Another lesson is to make sure that the primary point of your message lies in the first paragraph or two of the text.
Rather than focusing on prohibiting monetary transactions, perhaps a more important lesson imparted by Sandel’s examples is that we should work continuously to improve the perceived legitimacy of money’s distribution.
The lesson of Japan – but not only Japan – is clear: It is better to recognize the technical case for monetary finance and mitigate the political dangers than to prohibit its use entirely and pile up still greater dangers for the future.
The first useful lesson concerns expectations.
Such preventive measures are all the more important in view of the Great Inflation’s second relevant lesson: fiscal discipline is essential to price stability.
So we should heed the lesson of détente: however deep the rifts, we must try to build bridges.
The first lesson is that market competition, responsible macroeconomic policy, and private enterprise generally work.
In short, the third main lesson of Russia’s transition is that state capitalism does not work (at least not without a strong meritocratic political party, as in China).
Indeed, the main lesson of recent years is that their own security requires that they support democratic openings elsewhere.
Another lesson is that we should not worry too much about shifting political majorities.
One lesson from Japan’s experience in the 1990’s is that the sooner the authorities bite the bullet and clean up the financial system, the sooner the economy will be on the road to recovery.
To be sure, the CPC has undoubtedly taken to heart the first key lesson: strong economic performance is essential to political legitimacy.
The second lesson that China’s leaders have failed to appreciate adequately is the need to avoid imperial overreach.
The third lesson follows from such considerations.
As Fed Vice Chair Don Kohn recently put it, “we should not hold the economy hostage to teach a small segment of the population a lesson.”
Both Europe and America can learn a lesson hidden in American history, for, lost in the haze of patriotic veneration of America’s founders is the fact that they created a new country during – and largely because of – a crippling debt crisis.
I was among those who hoped that, somehow, the financial crisis would teach Americans (and others) a lesson about the need for greater equality, stronger regulation, and a better balance between the market and government.
The interest the world has taken in America’s vote is the best example of America’s soft power, and a lesson in democracy from the world’s only superpower.
President Herbert Hoover’s failures should be a sanguinary lesson.
Many developing-country governments failed to learn the lesson of earlier crises, which should have prompted regulations and taxes restricting and discouraging foreign-currency exposures.
The more I have thought about the lesson she taught me 45 years ago, the clearer I have seen another, less obvious dimension in what she said: It is “we” who lost the war.
There is yet another lesson to be learned.
The first lesson is that, at least as long as the current interest-rate configuration is sustained, the proper inflation target for the Fed should be 4% per year, rather than 2%.
The second lesson is that the two slope coefficients in the algebraic equation that is the Phillips curve – the link between expected inflation and current inflation, and the responsiveness of future inflation to current unemployment – are both much smaller than they were back in the 1970s or even in the 1980s.
The third lesson is that yield-curve inversion in the bond market is not just a sign that the market thinks that monetary policy is too tight; it is a sign that monetary policy really is too tight.
The fourth lesson similarly reflects developments extending back further than 20 years.
This is a lesson for all countries contemplating corporate tax breaks – even those without the misfortune of being led by a callow, craven plutocrat.
Whereas earlier, Chancellor Merkel had ruled out the old French idea of eurozone-specific governance for fear of being in a minority among Southern European countries, she has now drawn a lesson from the crisis and is proposing that eurozone countries go ahead and tighten cooperation with any others who are able and willing to join them.
This is a painful lesson that post-communist countries learned during the 1990s.
One lesson from the German experience is that sudden changes in regulation can create peaks and valleys in demand that are not helpful to an industry that is still emerging.
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