Muddling through has failed.

Europe s Ambitious Muddling Through

This is no time for half measures or muddling through.

Muddling through as before would only escalate and prolong the crisis.

Episodic muddling through may be the best that can be hoped for.

The second lesson from southern Europe is that muddling through is unlikely to work.

Had Obama s attempt at muddling through worked, it would have avoided some big philosophical battles.

Under these circumstances, ambitious muddling through is both the most likely and the most promising scenario.

And, while muddling through is a characteristic response of complex political systems, it is deeply destructive.

Besides, muddling through may prove unaffordable even in the short run, if oil prices decline again.

We are now perilously close to the moment when muddling through could give way to renewed crisis.

The record since 2010 suggests that muddling through will remain the EU s dominant approach for the foreseeable future.

Muddling Out of Freefall

Anti austerity anger swept away the reform agenda of Mario Monti s previous technocratic government, leaving Italy, its future uncertain, to continue muddling through.

With the only effective solutions full blown eurozone political union, or abandoning the euro ruled out, muddling through is all that is left.

As a result, the prime minister is barely muddling through and only by agreeing with the major opposition parties to dissolve the lower house.

None of these options is easy each entails serious difficulties and great risks. Episodic muddling through may be the best that can be hoped for.

The ambitious muddling through scenario will be long, bumpy, and sometimes risky, and will probably end at a destination that looks very different from today s expectations.

These revised agreements should include bold, enlightened provisions for infrastructure and social cohesion funds, since these can make the difference between muddling through and true success.

The current government s tactic of muddling through without changing the political system or the structure of the economy is fraught with the risk of gradual decline.

Greece s long festering crisis has been mishandled by all parties from the outset. Emotions now are running so high that muddling through is the only constructive alternative.

Emerging markets and developing countries are taking the future into their own hands at a time when rich countries are muddling through their own self inflicted problems.

The American government, too, is betting on muddling through the Fed s measures and government guarantees mean that banks have access to low cost funds, and lending rates are high.

In today s crisis, muddling through would be a recipe for a continuation of the crisis and secular stagnation of the type once described by Alvin Hansen, a contemporary of Keynes.

But the fundamental crisis of the eurozone has not been resolved, and another year of muddling through could revive these risks in a more virulent form in 2014 and beyond.

This is no time for half measures or muddling through. If we seize the moment, we can navigate our way out of this crisis and restore strong, sustainable, and balanced global growth.

It is now mired in an existential crisis more profound than at any point since 1945. And, while muddling through is a characteristic response of complex political systems, it is deeply destructive.

At the same time, muddling through a typically European answer that limits political risk while not really changing anything will be difficult, because the consequences of the global economic crisis have not yet been fully addressed.

There are times when muddling through or, in the Chinese version, crossing the river by feeling the stones is the right governing strategy, and there are times when a bold resetting of values and direction is required.

There are times when muddling through or, in the Chinese version, crossing the river by feeling the stones is the right governing strategy, and there are times when a bold resetting of values and direction is required. Successful leaders know what time it is.

At the end of the day, ambitious muddling through will most likely lead to a higher degree of sui generis economic and fiscal integration (especially among euro zone countries), including binding synchronization of national budgets, greater economic coordination, and eventually also some limited form of debt mutualization.

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