Fourth, Egypt's military must restore and extend stability, setting an example throughout the Middle East, thereby allowing whatever progress toward a truly democratic culture to emerge.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: How to make Egypt safe for democracy

At present the Bundesbank can preach about risks to financial stability but it cannot impose counter-measures such as setting higher capital requirements for banks or putting constraints on specific types of lending such as mortgages.

ECONOMIST: The Bundesbank should not exert its new clout too zealously

Ferrari wanted the Sport setting to allow for some thrills before traction and stability control systems engage.

FORBES: Vehicles Feature

As Mr Borio at the Bank for International Settlements points out, many of the ideas around countercyclicality (setting aside more capital in good times) and macroprudential regulation (safeguarding the stability of the whole banking system as well as of individual banks) were oven-ready, having been worked on by a coterie of central bankers, academics and regulators for a number of years.

ECONOMIST: Banks will still make money, just less of it

This preference for "stability" over potentially positive but uncertain, and possibly risky, change is the default-setting for professional arms controllers, and the diplomatic corps and foreign policy establishment more generally.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Arms controllers return