Italy wants more "carrots" to encourage orderly but rapid change, including an upgrade of relations with Egypt and Tunisia and a new system to manage migration.
An equally important asset was the Prussian army's general staff, which planned the rapid, orderly movement of large numbers of troops to the battle zones.
Unsustainably high debt should be reduced in a rapid and orderly fashion to avoid a long and protracted (often a decade or longer) de-leveraging process.
The new legislation will empower the federal government to seize control of struggling financial institutions, banks or non-banks, and put them through what amounts to a rapid and orderly bankruptcy process.
On Thursday, Berlusconi and four other European leaders said in a joint statement they were "extremely concerned" about the situation in Egypt and called for "a rapid and orderly transition towards a broadly representative government".
Given these economic tea leaves, the choice is clear: continue with fossil-fueled business as usual and its associated market and climate chaos, or foster, on a worldwide scale, a rapid and orderly transition from fossils to renewables.
The unfortunate experience of Lehman was a key reason why part of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law said major institutions qualifying as too big to fail had to submit plans, known as living wills, to the Federal Reserve and the FDIC explaining how they could be "liquidated in a rapid and orderly fashion" without bringing down the financial system or requiring taxpayer bailouts.
According to the legislation, these firms are "to report periodically to the [Fed's] Board of Governors, the [Financial Stability Oversight] Council, and the [FDIC] the plan of such company for rapid and orderly resolution in the event of material financial distress or failure".
However, with a living will, these SIFIs would have had a plan in place to identify a range of specific actions to facilitate a firm's rapid and orderly resolution, including that of the SIFI's material entities, critical operations and core business lines.
"Can you honestly say that JP Morgan could be resolved in a rapid and orderly fashion as described in its plans with no threats to the economy and no need for a taxpayer bailout?" Warren asked Yellen, who did not answer directly.
