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...Walter Bagehot’s 19th-century division of British government into a “dignified” (monarchical) part and an “efficient” (parliamentary) one still holds true of most advanced governments....
...A striking thing about Walter Bagehot’s 19th-century classic Lombard Street is the book’s defence of some of the inefficient-looking aspects of banking....
...Not even Walter Isaacson’s bestselling biography, which appeared after Jobs’ death in 2011, slaked the appetite for stories of his brilliance, eccentricity and rudeness....
...Older readers on both sides of the Atlantic will recall with much pleasure the tenure of the Honorable Walter H. Annenberg as our plenipotentiary to the Court of St James....
...One can say of legislation what Walter Bagehot once wrote about banking. “The business of banking ought to be simple,” he insisted. “If it is hard it is wrong.”...
...The writer is a senior editor at The Weekly Standard More columns at www.ft.com/caldwell...
...Mediocre is what Walter Bagehot said bankers should be: “The business of banking ought to be simple,” he wrote. “If it is hard it is wrong....
...Yet Mr Walters is correct to assert that “this compact storyline has only been suggested after the fact”. The nooses were hung in August....
...As Walter Bagehot wrote, in the middle of Queen Victoria’s reign: “The mass of the English people yield a deference rather to something else than to their rulers....
...The Ramadan controversy is coming to resemble arguments that surrounded the 1952 McCarran-Walter Act....
...Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the Social Democrat foreign minister, and parliamentarian Ruprecht Polenz, the top Christian Democrat foreign policymaker, both warned her against returning to Iraq....
...The most spectacular corruption cases of the late 1980s and early 1990s involved members of the Democratic majority: Mario Biaggi of New York, Dan Rostenkowski of Illinois, Walter Tucker of California and...
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