Politicians with crazy blond hair are FUBAR machines.
Banks are financial infrastructure. If they break, they take lots of businesses and customers with them. I'm okay with lone failures, but banks have lots of hooks.Please don't gamble with infrastructure!
Yet the world's average inflation goes around 5%
Economists don't run govt's, moronic politicians do, and moronic voters vote them in place.
D'oh! Willie Sutton, not Willie Horton!
Anyhow, I stick by Leslie Fish's answer.
But, no. It's Leslie Fish who has the answer:
Robbing the Poor
This factory flew. Go USA!
I don't think we should expect to see steady progress toward a climate solution, I think it's going to happen quite suddenly after some combination of the technology to do it getting cheap enough and the climate producing enough "shit's getting real" moments for a large fraction of the first-world population. At that point either we'll get our asses in gear and set up oceanic and atmospheric carbon sequestration megastructures all over the planet with maybe a little SRM sprinkled on top, or we'll be too distracted or impoverished to do anything about it for some silly reason or another and all the disastrous predictions will come true because this is a problem we're collectively too stupid as a species to solve. That's a real possibility.
We warn the reader in advance that the proof presented here depends on a clever but highly unmotivated trick. -- Howard Anton, "Elementary Linear Algebra"