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The PiS’s wholesale refusal to admit any guilt or own up to mistakes speaks to a deep-seated immaturity.
True, no great war has erupted, and we have more or less avoided the mistakes of the Great Depression, which led in the 1930s to greater protectionism, bank failures, severe austerity, and a deflationary environment.
Critics who argue that fiscal stimulus in Japan failed in the past – leading only to squandered investment in useless infrastructure – make two mistakes.
But seizing that opportunity requires moving past blame, learning from mistakes, and identifying how best to achieve a sensible, long-term national energy policy.
Such an outcome is probably only possible if two conditions are met: first, the United Kingdom joins the euro area, and, second, the United States makes serious, confidence-sapping mistakes.
Calamitous mistakes for which Western policymakers were responsible – namely, the protracted war in Iraq and the global economic crisis – cemented the reversal of Liberal Order 2.0.
They will also have to learn from the past mistakes of other multinationals.
George W. Bush, for example, used his second four years in office to fix mistakes made during his first (his second-term team was busy).
But the eurozone is not only replicating other unions’ mistakes; it is repeating its own.
Credit mistakes are made during the boom, not during the crash, so the argument goes.
Whatever mistakes Georgia’s government made cannot justify Russia’s actions.
What is needed most is a more measured approach that reflects the lessons of recent mistakes.
It is not too late for Western powers to consider the lessons of past mistakes and recalibrate their counterterrorism policies accordingly.
Two key mistakes stand out.
The OBR, reviewing its recent mistakes, accepted that “the average [fiscal] multiplier over the two years would have needed to be 1.3 – more than double our estimate – to fully explain the weak level of GDP in 2011-12.”
These two mistakes compounded each other: If the negative impact of austerity on economic growth is greater than was originally assumed, and the positive impact of quantitative easing is weaker, then the policy mix favored by practically all European governments has been hugely wrong.
By 2009, AQIM was learning from the mistakes of its mother organization, the GIA, and its sister organization, Al Qaeda in Iraq.
In view of the record of mistakes in every other judicial system, such confidence is difficult to justify.
The mistakes of the 1990s should be remedied, and the starting point should be to offer those who want to join the West the opportunity to work toward doing so.
But, because we now know a great deal about what has worked in resettling migrants, we can hope to avoid the mistakes of the past – not least by documenting and sharing the experiences of the countries that have managed migration well.
Since then, the country’s president, Christian Wulff, who was elected with Merkel’s support, has been forced to resign, owing to mistakes he made as Minister President of Lower Saxony.
Finally, a series of Western mistakes and misfortunes, a crisis in transatlantic relations, lack of leadership, and the growing threat of Islamic fundamentalism (in both the Middle East and Europe) have led Russian leaders to believe that the West is a sinking ship, to be abandoned as soon as possible.
But here, too, the Berlin-Brussels-Frankfurt axis blackmailed local taxpayers into paying for foreign banks’ mistakes – presenting the Irish with a €64 billion ($87 billion) bill, roughly €14,000 per person, for banks’ bad debt – while imposing massive austerity.
At Merkel’s behest and with the complicity of the ECB, which waited until July 2012 to quell a bond-market panic sparked by eurozone policymakers’ mistakes, the Commission also imposed eurozone-wide austerity, causing a cumulative loss of nearly 10% of GDP in 2011-13, according to the Commission’s own economic model.
European leaders should recognize their own mistakes and acknowledge the democratic deficit in the current institutional arrangements.
It might have been able to win over the Iraqi people in the early months of the occupation, but by now its cumulative mistakes may have doomed the campaign for hearts and minds to failure.
For them it will be just another instance of having to bear the costs of policy mistakes made in the advanced industrial countries, another instance of globalization gone awry.
What these companies must recognize is that over time they may not be able to survive a steady stream of privacy gaffes – whether the result of their own mistakes or guilt by association – and constantly changing rules.
If they go wrong, it must be because of mistakes in policy.
Indeed, over the last seven years, China’s reliance on bank-based capital allocation has led to the same mistakes that caused the 2008 financial crisis in the advanced economies.
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