The Dead Cat Bounce

The IMF s False Confession

Europe s Misguided Search for Growth

America s Misguided Immigration Debate

Misguided regulation or market failures that harm competition anywhere can burden the entire economy.

Well, throughout the world, if we look at the lights at night, the one thing that's misleading is that, visually, it looks like most of the world is already built out.

Mr. Fallouh (Syrian Arab Republic) said that he was not surprised by the thoroughly deceitful statement made by the representative of Israel, the purpose of which had been to mislead world public opinion.

Today, pressure is increasing for the US Treasury to follow Nixon s misguided example and issue a finding (due by April 15th) that China is manipulating its exchange rate.

The US government s misguided move from potential mediator and problem solver to active backer of the Syrian insurrection was, predictably, a terrible mistake.

Orwellian use of terms like fair trade masks the fact that this is nothing but an insidious form of protectionism that seeks to reduce import competition.

The third false lesson is that if we could only maintain confidence in the financial system (and by extension the wider economic system), the system itself could be trusted to survive and prosper.

The dream of improving the world disguised a farce that affected not only a single life, as in Cervantes story, and affected not only the misleading army of buffoons believed to be missionaries.

Some opponents of the Iraq War, including me, believe that a fundamental and deeply misguided objective of the war from the outset has been to create a long term military base (or bases) in Iraq, ostensibly to protect oil routes and oil concessions.

Some westerners, while lamenting Ahmedinejad s insensitivity, have struggled to minimize the significance of his Holocaust denial as the fulminations of a misguided fanatic (as if misguided fanaticism were an incidental quality in a nation s president).

BRUSSELS The misguided belief that this time is different led policymakers to permit the credit boom of the early 2000 s to continue for too long, thus preparing the ground for the biggest financial crisis in living memory.