The Afghan Muddle

The Mexican Muddle

Japan u0027s Leadership Muddle

Latin America s Integration Muddle

Why should I muddle myself?

These people muddle up their senses.

Sorry, Major, there's been a muddle. I'll lay yourtable right away.

Practically perfect people never permit sentiment to muddle their thinking.

And without much ado We can all muddle through Without you!

I know neither of us is in the habit, but I trust we'll muddle through.

The recent chaos in Greece and Italy may be the first step in this process. Clearly, the eurozone s muddle through approach no longer works.

The EU can continue muddle along with its one size fits all policy of enlargement lite in the region. Or it can work harder to turn balancers into joiners.

So the government will prefer to muddle through the crisis, rather than risk any decisive reform. The goal of clinging to power remains the priority, and risk aversion the main guideline.

Such actions included attempts to deny the Chamorro people its inalienable right to self determination and to muddle the issue of what should be understood by the term people of Guam .

There are now two options for the region one is a shock integration program that takes all of the Western Balkan states into the EU the other is a journey into the unknown. The hope that these countries can muddle through on their own is a dangerous illusion.

Consider the muddle in the United Nations Security Council over Syria s civil war. Just two years ago, the Council approved a resolution authorizing a military intervention in Libya the first resolution to implement the responsibility to protect (R2P) principle, which the general assembly adopted unanimously in 2005.

Between old and new muddle, and the certain prospect that the demolition of each bad idea merely allows others to take root and grow in its place, the task of the free trader is never finished.

The banking system has just been tested to see if it is adequately capitalized a stress test that involved no stress and some couldn t pass muster. But, rather than welcoming the opportunity to recapitalize, perhaps with government help, the banks seem to prefer a Japanese style response we will muddle through.

BERKELEY US Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke is not regarded as an oracle in the way that his predecessor, Alan Greenspan, was before the financial crisis. But financial markets were glued to the speech he gave in Jackson Hole, Wyoming on August 26. What they heard was a bit of a muddle.

This bizarre brew appears to have been concocted in an effort to reconcile the irreconcilable the current yearning for democracy with Russia s despotic past. But, like any muddle, it is succeeding only in confusing Russians about themselves and their country.

Clearly, the eurozone s muddle through approach no longer works. Unless the eurozone moves toward greater economic, fiscal, and political integration (on a path consistent with short term restoration of growth, competitiveness, and debt sustainability, which are needed to resolve unsustainable debt and reduce chronic fiscal and external deficits), recessionary deflation will certainly lead to a disorderly break up.

But the spectacularly muddle headed argument nowadays that too much austerity is killing Europe is not surprising. Commentators are consumed by politics, flailing away at any available target, while the anti austerity masses apparently believe that there are easy cyclical solutions to tough structural problems.

The time is fast approaching when the public becomes entirely disillusioned with both the LDP and the DPJ, which comprise a two party system in name only, in which legislators shift allegiance for reasons centered on attachment to or enmity against the LDP. Without a grand reorganization of the major political parties along ideological lines, Japan s domestic and foreign policies including relations with the US will remain a muddle.

But it is more likely that 2006 will just be another year of malaise China s significance within the global economy is still not large enough to offset weaknesses in the rest of the world. America, too, will manage to muddle through again leaving even higher levels of debt for the future.

Then, at the start of 2010, the countries that had been muddling through divided into two groups those where government credit was unimpaired continued to muddle through, while countries like Greece and Ireland, where government credit was impaired, had no choice but to pursue austerity and try to restore fiscal confidence.

The eurozone s current muddle through approach is an unstable disequilibrium kicking the can down the road, and throwing good money after bad, will not work. Either the eurozone moves toward a different equilibrium greater economic, fiscal, and political integration, with policies that restore growth and competitiveness, including orderly debt restructurings and a weaker euro or it will end up with disorderly defaults, banking crises, and eventually a break up of the monetary union.

NEW YORK After the Greek and Irish crises and the spread of financial contagion to Portugal, Spain, and possibly even Italy, the eurozone is now in a serious crisis. There are three possible scenarios muddle through, based on the current approach of lend and pray break up, with disorderly debt restructurings and possible exit of weaker members and greater integration, implying some form of fiscal union.

Today, another split is occurring, this time between those countries that are continuing to muddle through and Great Britain. Even though the British government s credit is still solid gold, Prime Minister David Cameron s administration is about to embark on what may be the largest sustained fiscal contraction ever a plan to shrink the government budget deficit by 9 of GDP over the next four years.

LONDON As Syria s civil war has progressed, the West s views on arming the opposition have become increasingly confused, which reflects the growing muddle on the ground. While President Bashar al Assad s regime remains vicious and tyrannical, and some of its opponents motives remain altruistic, the conflict can no longer be defined simply as one of good versus evil.

Americans should hope for all of this, though I am not sanguine that they will get much of it. amp More likely, America will muddle through here another little program for struggling students and homeowners, there the end of the Bush tax cuts for millionaires, but no wholesale tax reform, serious cutbacks in defense spending, or significant progress on global warming.

Americans should hope for all of this, though I am not sanguine that they will get much of it. More likely, America will muddle through here another little program for struggling students and homeowners, there the end of the Bush tax cuts for millionaires, but no wholesale tax reform, serious cutbacks in defense spending, or significant progress on global warming.

The muddle through scenario with financing provided to member states in distress (conditional on fiscal adjustment and structural reforms), in the hope that they are illiquid but solvent is an unstable disequilibrium. Indeed, it could lead to the disorderly breakup scenario if institutional reforms and other policies leading to closer integration and restoration of growth in the eurozone s periphery are not implemented soon.

But the real danger which even Hollande s sternest critics may be underestimating is not so much his individual policy failings (serious though they may be) as his approach to the twin challenges posed by France s economic imbalances and the eurozone crisis. On each front separately, he might manage to muddle through together, they look likely to cement France s loss of competitiveness.

Had it not been for the world economic crisis, or if it ends up being short and shallow, many observers, including me, remain convinced that Mexico can continue to muddle through, as it has done since 1996. These past 13 years have been fair to middling for the country mediocre economic growth, but no collapse democratic rotation in power, with no uprisings or massacres a slow but steady expansion of the middle class and a slow but steady drop in corruption.

BERKELEY At the end of 2008, as the financial crisis hit with full force, the countries of the world divided into two groups those whose leaders decided to muddle through, and China. Only the Chinese took seriously Milton Friedman s and John Maynard Keynes s argument that, when faced with the possibility of a depression, the first thing to do is use the government to intervene strategically in product and financial markets to maintain the flow of aggregate demand.

WASHINGTON, DC The decision of former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami not to seek the presidency again has revealed how muddled Iranian presidential politics now is. In trying to sort out this muddle, the most important thing to keep in mind is not so much who will be elected, but what that choice will reveal about the intentions of the country s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

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1 Documents A 8089 A 8389 and Corr.1 and 2 A 8389 Add.1 and Add.1 Corr.1 and 2 A 8828 A 9148 and Add.1 A 9817 A 10272 A 31 218 A 32 284 A 33 356 A 34 631 A 35 425 A 36 579 A 37 485 A 38 409 A 39 591 A 40 702 A 41 680 A 42 650 A 43 694 A 44 599 A 45 576 A 46 522 A 47 509 A 48 557 A 49 511 A 50 463 and A 51 99 Add.2.

Reports of the Secretary General (A 52 297, A 52 341, A 52 433, A 52 434, A 52 500, A 52 525, A 52 532, A 52 535, A 52 562, A 52 563, A 52 568, A 52 678)

Reports of the Secretary General (A 53 157, A 53 213, A 53 291, A 53 292, A 53 307, A 53 316, A 53 330, A 53 344, A 53 359, A 53 361, A 53 377, A 53 424, A 53 538)

(A 51 59, A 51 73, A 51 87, A 51 120, A 51 127, A 51 138, A 51 208 S 1996 543, A 51 210, A 51 295, A 51 314, A 51 357, A 51 375, A 51 462 S 1996 831 and A 51 529)

a For the previous reports on the activities of the Institute, see A 38 475, A 39 553, A 40 725, A 41 676, A 42 607, A 43 686, A 44 421, A 45 392, A 46 334, A 47 345, A 48 270, A 49 329, A 50 416, A 51 364 and A 52 272. Appendix

(b) Human rights questions, including alternative approaches for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms (A 60 134, A 60 266, A 60 272, A 60 286, A 60 299, A 60 301, A 60 301 Add.1, A 60 305 , A 60 321, A 60 326, A 60 333, A 60 338, A 60 338 Corr.1, A 60 339, A 60 340, A 60 348, A 60 350, A 60 353, A 60 357, A 60 374, A 60 384, A 60 399, A 60 431 and A 60 392)

Reports of the Secretary General (A 52 297, A 52 341, A 52 433, A 52 434, A 52 500, A 52 525, A 52 532, A 52 535, A 52 562, A 52 563, A 52 568 and A 52 678)

(i) Reports of the Secretary General (A 52 297, A 52 341, A 52 433, A 52 434, A 52 500, A 52 525, A 52 532, A 52 535, A 52 562, A 52 563, A 52 568, A 52 678)