The question of whether central banks should be involved in bank supervision is an old chestnut that central bankers and academics have debated for many years and practice in the years before the global financial crisis had swung towards separate bank regulators.

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Whenever the England national team plays poorly, the old chestnut of an inability to maintain possession is aired once again.

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Today, we have an enlarged NATO with increasing (though still far from adequate) capabilities, a good plan for streamlining NATO's command structure, a new NATO four-star command focused specifically on military transformation and an affirmative answer once and for all to that old chestnut, can NATO take on a mission out of area.

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