He also reckons the euro-zone bail-outs of the past four years have created moral hazard, allowing feckless Mediterranean countries to get away with minimal reforms and only limited fiscal discipline.Mr Sinn is particularly obsessed with Target 2 (the first German version of his book was called "The Target Trap") liabilities, which refer to the accounts of national central banks with the ECB.
There is pressure to deliver more for less and in a culture obsessed with targets, managers, fearful of reprisals should targets be missed, are likely to cut corners.
The result is a Pathfinder that, like the latest Explorer, throws a few bones at 4-wheeling fans even as it winks at the real target: moms and dads obsessed with numbers, counting two kids (at least), three rows, seven seats and as many miles per gallon as possible.
None of that mattered though because she was a super easy target and social media was obsessed with ripping her apart.
I kid you not, there is at least one item of Frozen-themed merchandise on every single aisle in Target, and my daughter is obsessed with Frozen.
But since then we've become obsessed with fixed targets, with anti-matériel warfare rather than anti-personnel operations.
But there seems to be no place for such civilised compromises in a 21st‑century Britain obsessed with modernisation, targets, delivery – and, the latest toxic addition, austerity.
And in an industry obsessed with price targets and precise measures of value, Bolton finds a range of intrinsic value estimates more than appropriate.
This is hardly surprising, given that it not only undercuts the official rationale for the kingpin strategy in the drug wars of the 1990s, but strikes a body blow at the doctrine of high-value targeting that so obsesses the Obama administration in its drone assassination campaigns across the Greater Middle East and parts of Africa today.
AHP, by contrast, is obsessed with meeting financial targets—any expenditure over a few thousand dollars has to be approved by senior management.
Tony Prestedge of Nationwide, a British building society that has come through the crisis relatively well so far, says that being unlisted, mutuals can avoid being obsessed with short-term growth targets and can live with periods of reduced profits.
