But the blessing of being the only game in town is alsoa curse to the extent to which it mutes the message the markets would normally send to stop spending.
Or the Crack Intelligence Co-Coordinating Unit, set up with the blessing of the home secretary in 1989 butalso dissolved a few years later - unwisely in the view of many who had been tracking the damage inflicted by the newly-emerging drug, crack cocaine?
The fact that the spa was designed by Peter Capone, who also spearheaded the construction of the new hotel but had no previous spa experience, is both ablessing and a curse.