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Instead of developing a nuanced solution to a multifaceted problem – an approach that would involve careful thought, not to mention mistakes and adjustments – every issue, from official corruption to business management, was viewed as one-dimensional.
While anything is possible, and there is always a risk of mistakes, my bet is that China stays its current course.
Would it not be far better to force conscious choice in order to limit the consequences of paternalistic mistakes?
The Fed’s previous mistakes proved extraordinarily costly.
So will the new mistakes, even if the Fed strives to hide the price tag.
The terrorism of Turkey's Kurdish separatists had, in the past, caused great strife, due to numerous mistakes made in assessing and addressing the source of the problem.
All the opportunities that the US market presented to Mexico could not offset the consequences of policy mistakes at home, especially the failure to reverse the real appreciation of the peso’s exchange rate and the inability to extend the productivity gains achieved in a narrow range of export activities to the rest of the economy.
The methods used to pay market operators reflected our collective mistakes.
Though the systemic risks brought about by globalization cannot be eliminated, they can be mitigated, if world leaders work together and learn from past mistakes.
When disasters hit (such as this year's droughts or floods), politicians cannot be held accountable for mistakes made over the course of many decades.
Preventing new terrorist attacks while understanding and avoiding the mistakes of the past will be essential if we are to preserve and support liberal democracy both at home and abroad.
Merkel’s Comeuppance is Europe’s – and the World’s – MisfortuneJOHANNESBURG – One of the most common mistakes European leaders make in interpreting US President Donald Trump’s hostility toward America’s traditional allies, or the alacrity of his administration’s efforts to blow up the international order, is to assume that all of this is unprecedented.
Even when mistaken policies reduce its attractiveness, America’s ability to criticize and correct its mistakes makes it attractive to others at a deeper level.
But determining how to bring peace and stability to Libya’s deeply fragmented society will require more than an assessment of this government’s mistakes; it will demand careful consideration of former leader Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi’s failures – and his successes.
Even Japan, the genesis of this tale, has embraced a new and intensive form of QE, reflecting its apparent desire to learn the “lessons” of its own mistakes, as interpreted by the US.
I agree, and am actually on the pessimistic side: this may be the year in which we begin to pay for past mistakes.
They are all caught between the problems of the present and the mistakes of the past: in Europe, between institutions designed to avoid inflation when the problem is growth and employment; in America, between massive household and government debt and the demands of fiscal and monetary policy; and everywhere, between America’s failure to use the world’s scarce natural resources wisely and its failure to achieve peace and stability in the Middle East.
In many places, torture chambers are the rules of the game, not the grotesque and shameful mistakes of ill-supervised troops.
The global banking system and economy was thus vulnerable to the mistakes of the three main rating agencies and their flawed risk models.
Responsive leaders need to learn from past mistakes.
The right to make mistakes without apologizing for them is a cherished principle of American “exceptionalism.”
As these economies add items – protecting themselves from volatility, countering unfavorable external conditions, and adapting to powerful technological trends – to their core structural growth agendas, they will invariably make mistakes, and even stumble.
But Kennedy recognized something far more dangerous: Accidents, misjudgments, bluffs, provocation by hardliners, or tactical mistakes could easily throw either side into panic.
The German chancellor and her Minister of Finance must now quickly learn from their mistakes of recent weeks.
A generation ago, scholars such as Oscar H. Gandy warned that we were turning into a scored-and-ranked society, and demanded more accountability and redress for technology-driven mistakes.
Of course, the Muslim Brotherhood was also a victim of its own mistakes, particularly the failure of Morsi and his government to reach out to the secular opposition, elements of which had contributed to his election.
Finally, US President Barack Obama knows that his reelection depends on avoiding mistakes in this matter.
Experts and policymaking elites must avoid repeating in relation to climate change the mistakes that distorted their approach to globalization.
The policy and regulatory mistakes that contributed to the subprime mortgage crisis – and thus to the US financial system’s near-meltdown and the eurozone’s travails – have brought the issue of optimal economic regulation and its relation to democracy to the fore once again.
There is plenty of reason to believe that, where it matters most, we have learned enormously from the mistakes of the past.
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