The hope that these countries can muddle through on their own is a dangerous illusion.

A greater dilemma will emerge if the muddle through strategy does not seem to be working.

So the government will prefer to muddle through the crisis, rather than risk any decisive reform.

America, too, will manage to muddle through again leaving even higher levels of debt for the future.

China s Inflation Muddle

Hobble and Muddle

The Afghan Muddle

The Mexican Muddle

Japan u0027s Leadership Muddle

Latin America s Integration Muddle

Greater fiscal centralization and political unification seem inevitable, but it may take time to muddle through to that outcome.

Today, another split is occurring, this time between those countries that are continuing to muddle through and Great Britain.

On each front separately, he might manage to muddle through together, they look likely to cement France s loss of competitiveness.

If they are expected to muddle through, a blanket debt write down would weaken banks and might slow economic growth.

If troubled eurozone countries, especially Spain, start growing rapidly again, there is still a muddle through outcome that might work.

That mistake was made by the Japanese, who tried, unsuccessfully, to muddle through, only to end up with 18 years of stagnation.

That said, the US will probably muddle through another year, neither pushed over the cliff nor put on the road to robust recovery.

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.

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.

But, viewing China s performance in the context of the past 30 years, there is no reason to believe that the country cannot muddle through once again.

The best we can hope for is that liberal democracies will muddle through this period of unease that demagogic temptations will be resisted, and violent impulses contained.

Strangely, Putin seems as trapped by this muddle as everybody else.

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.

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.

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.

But, like any muddle, it is succeeding only in confusing Russians about themselves and their country.

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.

But the spectacularly muddle headed argument nowadays that too much austerity is killing Europe is not surprising.

The EU can continue muddle along with its one size fits all policy of enlargement lite in the region.

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.

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.

But today we have involved ourselves in a colossal muddle, having blundered in the control of a delicate machine, the working of which we do not understand.

We have involved ourselves in a colossal muddle, he warned, having blundered in the control of a delicate machine, the working of which we do not understand.

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.

Given the many divisions inside the Union, Europeans will probably muddle on, until a serious crisis forces them to act, by which point it could well be too late.

This was good for the Jews of Shanghai. But the very ideas that helped them to survive continue to muddle the thinking of people who really ought to know better by now.

This is a war in which the interplay of informational conflict and physical violence is especially evident, in which disinformation and propaganda muddle motives, deny unmistakable violence, and seek to confuse both fighting forces and key populations.

So will Livni or Netanyahu be called by the President and charged with building a new government? Shimon Peres, seasoned political wizard that he is, could give his largely ceremonial role a fresh edge by helping all sides out of the muddle.

Yet there is almost no recognition of this basic truth in our governments or our global politics. People who speak about hunger and environmental crises are viewed as muddle headed moralists, as opposed to the hard headed realists who deal with war and peace.

But here's what's true we need it. We can do it through intimacy, through friendship, through prayer, through walking in nature.

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.

You gotta persist through failure. You gotta persist through crap!

And will we get through this third danger point, like we got through the second and like we got through the first?

From Bangkok, the line will run east through Cambodia and north through Vietnam to Hanoi, then through Laos and back to Kunming.

Going through their right hand tag bar, is like flipping through an amazing journey through the streets, mountains, coasts and deserts of Syria.