Would the City school have remedied its record of underachievement without special measures?
How much more secure the government's future would be if other ministers acknowledged and remedied the mistakes which have offended their backbenchers.
According to the FBI documents, the FBI concluded there were "no adverse consequences" emanating from its failure to seek approval for the sensitive investigation, noting the mistake was later "remedied".
Having read the inspectors' report, it seems incredible that the obvious shortcomings were not identified earlier and remedied at least two years ago.
The only way that this can be remedied is with intervention from governments, otherwise we'll all pay the price for it.
The global economy is suffering from a chronic demand shortfall, which can be remedied through sustained growth in government spending.
"While the FBI approval levels required by internal policy were not initially obtained, once discovered, corrective action was taken, non-compliance was remedied, and the oversight was properly reported through the FBI's internal oversight mechanism," it said.
Confronted by evidence contained in the cache of documents, the agency admitted that "FBI approval levels required by internal policy were not initially obtained" for the investigation, but said the failure was remedied and later reported internally.
"The scandals highlight a malaise in corners of finance that must be remedied.
In this case, if the Internal Revenue Service found that a company were paying a rate of less than 15% on its profits in any other country, it could demand the shortfall.Yet the failings of global corporate taxation will not be remedied by one country acting alone, even America (and there is no guarantee that the bipartisan consensus will translate into a sensible new tax law soon).
But Professor Mortensen's 1970 paper was still pretty modest in its treatment of the company side of the problem, which Peter Diamond remedied in his 1971 search model, "A Model of Price Adjustment," published in The Journal of Economic Theory.
