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One strong school of thought that emerged almost as soon as the killing began in 1989, is that the more radical student leaders had been reckless.
If they don’t, they will continue to vote against the establishment that they believe has failed them – even if it means voting for turmoil in Europe or a reckless narcissist in the US.
It is indefensible for the IMF and other creditors to obstruct Somalia’s access to financing because of arrears on a debt incurred three decades ago as much through reckless lending as through irresponsible borrowing.
Except for Russia’s brief war with Georgia in August 2008 (a conflict generally seen as instigated by reckless Georgian leadership), Russia’s acquiescence and commitment to the “new world order,” however problematic, was one of the great accomplishments of the post-Cold War era.
Meanwhile, citizens of creditor countries are focused on protecting the gains made before the crisis; after all, it was their savings that financed their neighbors’ reckless spending.
Nevertheless, their religious faith in privatization, unfettered markets, and monetarism led them to over-hasty asset sales, reckless deregulation, and savage deflation.
According to a recent report on the aftermath of the 2008 crisis, prepared by Better Markets, an advocacy group that pushes for stronger financial reforms, the cost to the US economy of the financial crisis – caused by financial institutions’ reckless risk-taking – amounts to at least $12.8 trillion.
Instead, by going after the hard-pressed 47% of America – the very people who have been hurt the most by reckless bank behavior – his prospect of victory in November has been severely damaged.
The reckless decisions underlying such losses are not just a private matter playing out in a domain of willing buyers and sellers.
The big problem is that the core of the world’s financial system has become unstable, and reckless risk-taking will once again lead to great collateral damage.
Like reckless giants, they did not heed the omens.
Following years of mismanagement and reckless lending, the bank was the first big victim of the commercial property market’s decline in 1990.
And at the global level, few if any rules or penalties for reckless behavior apply in important domains (cyberspace being paramount among them).
There is also a moral-hazard aspect to the austerity argument: easing repayment terms for spendthrift governments will only encourage reckless behavior in the future – forgiving past sins perpetuates sinning.
Lenders must suffer losses, so that they price sovereign risk more accurately in the future and make reckless governments pay higher interest rates.
This might prod Kim into taking some reckless action – aiming a missile at Guam, for example – to which the US would feel it must respond in kind.
It is a heartless, cynical strategy of reckless disregard for human dignity, justified by bigoted discourse and biased narratives.
By instilling fear in its adversaries, deterrence can goad governments – even those that are not directly involved in current cyber standoffs – into reckless or unpredictable behavior.
They have hacked people’s phones with reckless abandon.
As a result, democracies are likelier than non-democracies to win wars, because they mobilize their societies more fully, and because citizens, who bear the costs, have the electoral power to stop politicians from fighting wars that are reckless and unnecessary.
The Yugoslav army would have been integrated into NATO’s military system and unable to be used by a reckless Serb leader to gain territory at the expense of the other republics.
But the email row has highlighted some of the reasons people don’t like Clinton: To put it charitably, she’s been evasive in her responses to questions about what was undeniably a reckless act.
And, indeed, when it comes to China, Trump is betting that a hostile tone, backed by reckless but impressive threats, will divert American voters’ attention from serious domestic problems ahead of November’s midterm elections.
Boundless Crises, Reckless Spoilers, and Helpless GuardiansMUNICH – The international order may be in its worst shape since the end of the Cold War.
Those trying to keep the peace are overwhelmed and often helpless in the face of seemingly endless crises and reckless spoilers.
The Irish government that encouraged reckless bank lending and the creation of a property bubble was, perhaps not surprisingly, no more adept in managing the economy after the crisis that it was before.
It is, however, an understandable position: both US political parties supported policies that encouraged excessive investment in housing and excessive leverage, while free-market ideology dissuaded regulators from intervening to stop reckless lending.
I am tempted to absolve these leaders of their reckless rhetoric by blaming it on biology.
It’s time that we took these weapons away from everyone – before the most reckless leaders get us all killed.
We wrote: "President Bush and his administration have embarked on a reckless and extreme course that endangers the long-term economic health of our nation….
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