And if you look at them, the slate of the post colonial leaders an assortment of military fufu heads, Swiss bank socialists, crocodile liberators, vampire elites, quack revolutionaries.

The report of the Secretary General contains a wide assortment of positions and recommendations capable of changing the character of the United Nations and improving the lives of the peoples of the world in a fundamental way.

Unfortunately, these hopes were quickly dashed. Indeed, the disparate assortment of initiatives that were agreed at the meeting, though interesting, lack the needed breadth and scope, and will have to be integrated within a weak and outdated strategic framework.

A third are damaged beyond repair, another third are hopelessly unprofitable, and the rest are a mismanaged assortment of plants, a few of which could potentially produce something of value, but only with proper management and incentives. Trying to give these hopelessly inefficient enterprises a new lease on life would make Iraqis poorer without reducing the violence.

Independent candidates can choose from an assortment of alternatives, ranging from a cricket bat to images of various large animals. (Small ones were removed from the list when one candidate, running against another whose symbol was a parrot, wrung the neck of a live parrot at a public meeting to signify what he would do to his rival.)

It is mostly Jewish, though a young Arab professional class is now coming out of the universities and making its way with difficulties into the heartland of civil society. And, lest we forget, Middle Israel is earning the money and paying the taxes that support a wide assortment of traditionalists, fundamentalists, chauvinists, and other extremists Jewish and Muslim from Gaza to Jerusalem to the West Bank.

One result of this global monetary policy activism has been a rebellion among pseudo economists and market hacks in recent years. This assortment of Austrian economists, radical monetarists, gold bugs, and Bitcoin fanatics has repeatedly warned that such a massive increase in global liquidity would lead to hyperinflation, the US dollar s collapse, sky high gold prices, and the eventual demise of fiat currencies at the hands of digital krypto currency counterparts.