Mistake
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A major policy
mistake
and the same public officials now criticizing Sarkozy for attacking the ECB will be joining him.
But make no mistake: There is nothing normal or healthy about economic performance that is increasing inequality and, in many countries, leading to a populist backlash – both on the right and the left – against trade, globalization, migration, technological innovation, and market-oriented policies.
Even the smallest
mistake
might lead to devastating unintended consequences.
And make no
mistake
about it: the EU’s unilateral emission restrictions are not only economically destructive – likely to cost Europe an estimated $250 billion a year by 2020 – but are also astonishingly ineffective.
When the Berlin Wall was opened a month later, partly owing to an East German mistake, Bush was criticized for his low-key response.
But let us not make the
mistake
of fearing finance too much.
For example, he writes that it would be a
mistake
to assume that a world devoid of nationalism would automatically be peaceful and liberal.
China will pay dearly for this
mistake.
So make no
mistake
about it.
The third analogy is reflected in Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s recent references to Israel’s nuclear deterrent, which may have been a mistake, but probably indicate the evolution of Israeli strategic thinking.
Yet writing off the DRC as a development failure would be a
mistake.
But, in assessing the benefits achieved by economic growth, it is a
mistake
to focus on whether the income gap between rich and poor widened or narrowed.
This is a
mistake.
This means that it is not the role of any international institution to impose a particular model of development on any country – a
mistake
that the World Bank made in the past, and that it has been working to correct.
It would be a
mistake
to respond by trying to take globalization to the next level.
None of this is currently lethal, owing to the initiatives taken in recent years; but it would be a
mistake
to assume that full confidence has been restored.
It would be a
mistake
to assume that the success of the region’s transformation was inevitable.
It would be a
mistake
to count Europe out yet.
The Party’s unchallenged monopoly on political power systematically ensured that every
mistake
it made – such as the dreadful decade of the Cultural Revolution – turned into a prolonged nationwide crisis.
Putin is now making the same
mistake
as his Soviet forebears.
While free markets may have steered much of the world toward a wealthier, healthier future, placing our faith in Smith’s “invisible hand” to win the fight against climate change would be a tragic
mistake.
Inaction in Rio would be disastrous, but a single international agreement would be a grave
mistake.
People don’t understand how the government could have made this
mistake.
The worst
mistake
would be to follow the opposite policy – an inevitably futile effort to appease the extremists or seek to moderate them.
Examples like this abound in Latin America, but it is a
mistake
for Castro to think that Latin America is the competition.
Given that mistake, the Fed had little choice if it was to fulfill its mandate to maintain growth and employment: it had to lower interest rates, which it did in an unprecedented way – all the way down to 1%.
George Kennan, one of the greatest American diplomats of the post-war years, once wrote that the Western world was committing its biggest
mistake
in 50 years time by expanding NATO after Soviet communism collapsed.
That would be a grave mistake, for such an outcome would most likely pave the way for extreme alternatives.
Such a policy change would be a serious
mistake.
Bernanke, after an initial stumble—a rookie
mistake
as one commentator put it--appears to be following in his predecessor Alan Greenspan’s footsteps.
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