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Before a lasting peace can be achieved, the US will need to reflect on the mistakes that characterized its post-Cold War period of hegemony, when its unilateral military adventures and neo-imperial ambitions left it overstretched, highly indebted, and locked in perpetual war.
To the extent that this is true of other advanced economies, the global economy faces an extended multi-year period of low growth, with residual downside risk coming from policy gridlock and mistakes in Europe, the US, and elsewhere.
But Obama can learn from the early mistakes made by Jimmy Carter in the mid-1970’s.
Moreover, mistakes in Africa during the 1990’s, particularly in Rwanda, together with corruption scandals, have put pressure on French leaders to bring dramatic changes in foreign policy.
In my judgment, the authorities have a three-month window during which they could still correct their mistakes and reverse current trends.
Even with all of these mistakes, the IMF keeps its iron-grip on the fates of South America.
The EU will continue to flounder until it recognizes its mistakes and begins to carry out the reforms its economy needs.
It was the willingness of some large financial institutions to trade in discounted debt that established a market that could clear out the legacy of past mistakes.
We know that individuals and institutions make mistakes.
Such mistakes are all the more likely in times of stress.
The British historian A.J.P. Taylor had a cynical view of people’s ability to learn from their mistakes.
They are making serious mistakes in the current situation; the First President of the Supreme Court, for example, just went on vacation in order to remove herself from the line of fire.
The reason that politicians and corporate managers alike hate CDSs is precisely because CDS rates are so useful and so prompt in exposing their mistakes.
And yet, particularly since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, that is precisely what has happened, owing to four key mistakes made by the Bush administration.
If the economy was foolproof, and if so many good policy options existed to deal with crisis and distress, there was less need to avoid mistakes.
Of course, a key motive for Obama’s reticence about engaging in the Middle East is fear of repeating the mistakes that left the US enmeshed in Afghanistan and Iraq – the result of what Obama called the US government’s unthinking “drift toward war in Muslim countries.”
One is to exclude bank rescues altogether: only creditors would have to pay for bankers’ mistakes.
German taxpayers have paid dearly for German banks’ mistakes.
In this sense, the banking union is not a scheme to burden German taxpayers with the losses of failed southern European banks; rather, it is a mechanism to render all banks (including German ones) accountable for their own mistakes, thereby reducing the burden that they impose on domestic taxpayers.
The mistakes that have been made tell us that Russia's ruling elite has yet to take the meaning of democratization seriously.
Trump may simply be trying to appease his right-wing base and avoid accountability for his innumerable mistakes and misdeeds.
Ben Bernanke made mistakes – including thinking too much like Greenspan in the run-up to the catastrophe of 2008.
And the meta-risk of policy mistakes and accidents remains very high.
Fascism with a Feminist FaceNEW YORK – Western feminism has made some memorable theoretical mistakes; a major one is the frequent assumption that, if women held the decision-making power in society, they would be “kinder and gentler” (a phrase devised for George H.W. Bush in 1988 to appeal to the female vote).
Given the experience of Europe and the United States in the 1930s, I would say, policymakers would not make the same mistakes as their predecessors did during the Great Depression.
This time, we would make new, different, and, one hoped, lesser mistakes.
One would have thought we were capable of learning from the past, and that the Great Depression was important enough in European history that policymakers there would not be repeating its mistakes.
While Japan’s problems are partly due to its own mistakes, both America and Europe bear responsibility for its ongoing debacle.
To be sure, the United States has not experienced any major catastrophes, even though massive policy mistakes always seem to be looming on the horizon.
They have the advantage, however, of getting feedback from the market, which should enable them to correct their mistakes.ampnbsp;
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