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The Fall of the House of MurdochNEW YORK – During the four decades since the Watergate affair engulfed US President Richard Nixon, politicians have repeatedly ignored the scandal’s main lesson: the cover-up is worse than the crime.
Reformers should take a lesson from Sir Ronald Cohen’s pioneering work in social-impact investing.
But if the RUK, the EU, and NATO respond vindictively to a Yes vote – whether to teach Scotland a lesson or to deter others (such as Catalonia) – matters could become very ugly and very costly.
Globally, but especially for rapidly growing economies, the lesson is simple: avoid America’s private health-care model.
The general lesson from the euro crisis and the US rating downgrade is simple: given that so many countries have chronic excess savings (Germany, Japan, China, oil exporters), the world economy cannot recover without finding ways to channel these excess savings to economies that are both creditworthy and willing to borrow.
If there is one lesson to be learned from Europe’s recent travails, it is that monetary union without fiscal and political union will not work.
The lesson of the 1960’s suggests that a fully convertible renminbi could rapidly become a major international reserve currency.
One clear lesson is that we need better rules of engagement between economic researchers and policymakers.
The main lesson from the experience of 2008 and the subsequent deep recession is that it is much better to prevent big banks from failing than to deal with the consequences when they do.
But I would remind them of the second lesson from developing countries’ experience: non-inclusive growth patterns undermine trust and eventually governance, in turn undercutting policymakers’ ability to sustain policies and strategies that support high growth.
There is a basic lesson: “Markets with Chinese characteristics” are as volatile and hard to control as markets with American characteristics.
Saudi Arabia’s special role in American foreign policy is a lesson that US presidents learn only with experience.
But the lesson from the British experience is that the only way to deliver prosperity – to win the so-called “global race” – is by tackling problems head-on.
Central banks (not to mention lawmakers), with their strong attachment to neo-Keynesian theory, are ignoring a major lesson from decades of monetary-policy experimentation: the impact of monetary policy cannot be predicted with a high degree of certainty or accuracy.
To get the rest of the way to a sustainable future, we must apply this lesson again.
But one lesson of modern finance theory is that, in well functioning financial markets, repackaging risks should not make much difference.
But arguably the most important lesson learned in Iraq resulted from the almost catastrophic decision to decommission Saddam’s army without pay or pension.
Maybe this time, with a political crisis over migration erupting three years after migration inflows peaked, that lesson will finally be recognized.
Those who disdain environmental concerns have been ousted at the polls in large numbers, companies invest huge amounts in environmental technologies, states are suing car producers for their climate-adverse policies, and the requirements of the Kyoto Protocol have long been surpassed by some states – a lesson for German and European cities and municipalities.
The recent electoral defeat of the secessionists in Quebec should serve as a lesson for separatists throughout Europe.
The bilingual, peaceful coexistence of the province’s inhabitants can serve as a lesson to both rigid central governments and unrealistic secessionist movements elsewhere.
The lesson is that we should think about the economic long term when making decisions that have broad social consequencesAnd, of course, voter unrest is not limited to the US.
The lesson is clear: the US should end its obsolete embargo.
Yet the lesson of recent studies is that beliefs about what the government can and should do are not immutable.
The second lesson is that countries need to pay close attention to how social insurance policies affect the behavior of firms and workers.
There is a political lesson here for the rest of Europe’s populists.
That lesson applies powerfully today.
If, say, the Bank of China and the Federal Reserve decided to teach speculators a lesson by pushing the dollar’s value relative to the yuan up by 20% for a month, they could do so, bankrupting many financial institutions with short positions.
The political lesson Ireland’s leaders have taken from the bailout experience is that loyalty to the status quo, rather than a combination of truth-seeking and radical action, is the best way forward.
But the lesson learned from the case of Japan is largely a myth.
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