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But we know that privately owned banks also make huge mistakes.
China has already repeated the mistakes that led to Japan’s post-1990 slowdown and to sustained post-2008 economic malaise in many other advanced economies.
Volumes have been written, countless symposiums have been held, and famous promises have been made by the likes of former US Fed chairman Ben Bernanke never to repeat Japan’s mistakes.
Is it fair that innocent taxpayers must now pay for their mistakes?
The power of this process arises not from raw individual intelligence, but from the reinterpretation of the serendipitous insights and mistakes that our intelligence produces.
Social cooperation per se did not save the Dutch from the mistakes of the 60’s and 70’s.
Seventy years later, even after America’s massive foreign-policy mistakes in Iraq and elsewhere, and even after Chinese GDP has supposedly caught up with America’s (at least in terms of purchasing power parity), the world remains ready to be led by the US, including on the crucial subjects of trade and IMF reform.
Yet, despite this deeply ingrained skepticism about human nature, we embrace humanity's talent for progress and innovation, because we recognize man's ability to correct mistakes and errors.
This would be a way for Japan to escape its reputation for insularity, avoid the mistakes of its military history, improve its relations with Asian neighbors who still remember the 1930’s, and increase Japan’s “soft” or attractive power.
But Obama was quick to recover from mistakes in a practical way.
Preparations for the Brexit negotiations have been underway for some time, but they have so far been impaired by three elementary negotiating mistakes, and now must deal with the fact that the British government’s mandate to act has been damaged severely.
His Administration deserves much credit, both for policies followed and mistakes avoided.
Yet America's currency strategy is the most reckless--another mighty error in an economic policy so wayward that it is hard to know where to begin listing the mistakes.
How one views these risks depends on the costs of undoing mistakes, which in turn depends on other properties of the inflation-unemployment relationship that Phelps’ analysis did not address.
And political systems prove their worth by how quickly they put an end to their officials’ serial, mutually reinforcing, policy mistakes.
The list of policy mistakes is almost endless: interest-rate hikes by the European Central Bank in July 2008 and again in April 2011; imposing the harshest austerity on the economies facing the worst slump; authoritative treatises advocating beggar-thy-neighbor competitive internal devaluations; and a banking union that lacks an appropriate deposit-insurance scheme.
Major power shifts define eras in which key political leaders are likely to make serious foreign-policy mistakes.
The truth probably lies somewhere in the middle – the microfinance sector has made some mistakes, which politicians have exaggerated in an effort to destroy an industry that undermines them by making the poor more independent.
If those mistakes are identified and corrected before it is too late, the world has a better chance of avoiding the next round of meltdowns.
According to Santos, this new peace process is different, because it takes into account the lessons learned from past mistakes.
Any resolution of Kosovo’s status is problematic, but the international community should not repeat old mistakes.
Initially, it seemed that the Labor Party’s new leader, Shelly Yachimovich, would be the main beneficiary of this public anger; but, a series of mistakes reduced her support, leaving Labor with 15 seats – and benefiting Yesh Atid.
Russia’s government has, in fact, made serious mistakes in dealing with the crisis.
Yet these mistakes are relatively minor and reversible.
And, given diminishing government transparency in the US and more and more secret law, is it not a serious issue that a presidential candidate will not address his or her mistakes and shortcomings?
Yet even mainstream politicians, sometimes for the best of reasons, are in danger of making the same kinds of mistakes as the members of the 1814 Norwegian Constituent Assembly.
They view him as a man who trusts his instincts more than empirical evidence, who prays as a way of making policy, who doesn't recognize his mistakes in Iraq, and who listens to his inner voice instead of to what other countries have to say.
The financial sector will press governments to ensure full repayment, even when it leads to massive social waste, huge unemployment, and high social distress – and even when it is a consequence of their own mistakes in lending.
Real issues are buried beneath the crimes of the terrorists and the mistakes of the security forces.
Annan was not perfect, and his career included tragedies and mistakes.
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