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...With the Taliban growing in confidence and feeling the wind at its back, the bad news out of Afghanistan just keeps getting worse for the U.S. NATO commanders have long expressed frustration at the failure of the Pakistani military to prevent Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters maintaining sanctuaries in Pakistan from which they can launch attacks inside Afghanistan. But Pakistan's announcement on Monday of a peace agreement to accommodate the domestic Taliban insurgency in the Swat Valley suggests that an all-out war against militants on their soil is not what Pakistan's generals have in mind...
...Schwartz should know. In 1963, she and Milton Friedman published the 888-page tome “A Monetary History of the United States.” In it, they argued that the Federal Reserve Board failed to prevent a succession of bank failures and, thus, failed to inspire confidence in the market in 1932 and 1933 because it lacked the “vigorous intellectual leadership” necessary to do so. Weak leadership did not overcome antagonism between the 10-year-old Fed and the New York Clearinghouse—a fate that could befall Geithner?...
...With the Taliban growing in confidence and feeling the wind at its back, the bad news out of the Afghanistan theater just keeps getting worse for the U.S. NATO commanders have long expressed frustration at the failure of the Pakistani military to prevent Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters maintaining sanctuaries in Pakistan from which they can launch attacks inside Afghanistan. But Pakistan's announcement on Monday of a peace agreement to accommodate the domestic Taliban insurgency in the Swat Valley suggests that an all-out war against militants on their soil is not what Pakistan's generals have in mind...
...policy wonks is that they solve yesterday’s problems. Though policymakers should learn from their experience, they warp their judgment by learning too much from the particular crises they handled when they were last in office. As a result, they often ignore criticism in their attempt to prevent previous plights from recurring. And, when everyone in the room has the same nightmare, each in his lookout watches the same bogeyman...
...Following World War I, new technology made farms more efficient, creating large crop surpluses, low grain prices, and slim agricultural profits. Farmers suffered the fallout, convincing Roosevelt’s future advisers that capitalism had failed and only government could prevent further hardship. A decade later, these professors-turned-bureaucrats saw the bogeyman of the 1920s as the cause behind the Great Depression: an unregulated market...