The Price of Inaction

And then he draws the following conclusions for any dimwits who haven t yet understood him

The scale of the violence in Syria underscores the risk implied by inaction.

The G 8 is now reaping the consequences of its inaction.

Exceptional periods sometimes create exceptional leaders.

Because transitions are dangerous times.

Very, very rare were the short intervals of quiet.

Our power supply has disappeared completely for long periods.

The risk of inaction or inappropriate action has reached enormous proportions.

The dangers of both action and inaction are very high.

All of the remaining thorium isotopes have half lives that are less than thirty days and the majority of these have half lives that are less than ten minutes.

Post revolutionary periods, however, allow for more variety.

What exactly al Qaeda is, or was, remains in dispute.

Historians can make a credible case that periods of maximalist over commitment have done more damage to America s place in the world than periods of retrenchment.

Because of the government's inactivity, such barriers are rising across the Indonesian archipelago.

The challenges posed by climate change are real, and the consequences of inaction are impossible to ignore.

Such periods always follow revolutions and times of far reaching change.

The EU must instead show leadership through its efforts to solve the world s current problems.

In the meantime, the absence of institutional reform should not be allowed to serve as a pretext for inaction.

The governments of the victims of the Mumbai massacre are also likely to demand accountability from Islamabad.

Ignatieff says Obama already owns the consequences of his inaction

Pakistan is likely to face disagreeable diplomatic and economic consequences for inaction.

Over periods of several years, our models do better.

Everything can be measured before Wounded Knee and after.

In fact, he forecasted that the price of doing nothing could even approach 20 of GDP.

Asked why they didn't, the staff replied nobody asked us .

Clearly, periods of global growth are almost always characterized by symbiotic imbalances.

Extended periods without new data facilitate indeed, foster the unrestrained growth of speculative theory bubbles.

But these distortions did not prevent unbalanced systems from enduring for long periods.

Quiet periods of a few days have alternated with almost continuous Strombolian eruptions since then.

They threatened to hold a large scale protest and block roads if the government fails to take actions.

But periods of global economic expansion have virtually always been characterized by symbiotic imbalances.

The bilateral relationship has been rocky ever since, alternating between periods of friction and conciliation.

The cost of inaction or merely pretending to act is likely to be high for everyone in the Middle East.

But theStern Report is still right to argue that the potential risks of continued inaction are far greater.

When it comes to economic policy, a fast, faulty decision is often better than inaction.

Central banks are better at restraining markets irrational exuberance in a bubble restricting the availability of credit or raising interest rates to rein in the economy than at promoting investment in a recession.

Germany s Angela Merkel says it makes economic sense to cut CO2, because the the economic consequences of inaction will be dramatic for us all.

Pious talk about reworking the UN sanctions is another version of the second alternative that is, of doing nothing.

Australia s Kevin Rudd agrees that the cost of inaction will be far greater than the cost of action.

Mereka sudah menyadari bahwa konsekuensi buruk akan timbul dari tidak adanya tindakan, dan manfaat dari upaya penurunan emisi sekarang akan terbayarkan dalam jangka panjang.

Food could have been transported by rail within British India to save many starving people, but the British believed in a hands off, laissez faire policy.

The economy grew faster in good phases, and slumped more sharply in downturns.

When monsoons failed, millions of Indians faced imminent death.

Such an approach should seek to protect economies from the destabilizing impacts of politically motivated policy changes, without impeding governments ability to correct dangerous imbalances. Officials must be at least as vigilant about reducing expenditure and withdrawing stimulus measures during periods of growth as they are inclined to introduce such policies during downturns.