The fact that neither the mayhem in the Middle East nor the crisis in Ukraine seem to touch financial markets should not lull us into complacency. The memory of August 1914 should remind us how the world stumbled into catastrophe.

I call it complacency our complacency.

Markets Rational Complacency

The fact that there has been no major nuclear terrorist attack should not lull us into a fall sense of security. The threat remains.

America s Misplaced Deficit Complacency

No Time for Complacency

Complacency in a Leaderless World

I believe, number one, it's complacency.

However, there was no room for complacency.

Yet this is no cause for complacency.

But complacency does have a tendency to breed contempt.

But we agreed that there was no call for complacency.

Many legitimate manufacturers worldwide, whether through complacency or incompetence, lack adequate quality controls. In some cases, deficient storage and refrigeration systems turn safe medicines into dangerous substances.

While the preceding developments are welcome, there is no room for complacency.

But the steady progress made to date is no grounds for complacency.

But the long term nature of this challenge must not lull us into inaction. We must start reinventing our productive systems now, precisely because the path of change will be so long and the environmental dangers are already so pressing.

But the long term nature of this challenge must not lull us into inaction. We must start reinventing our productive systems now, precisely because the path of change will be so long and the environmental dangers are already so pressing. nbsp

But there can be no room for complacency there is much more hard work ahead.

And that level of complacency means they don't feel the need to advocate for that culture.

The bottom line is that the costs of reform are affordable. The costs of complacency are not.

In that regard, he cautioned against complacency, pointing out that considerable work still needed to be accomplished.

I believe that challenges to the OSCE's relevance and strategic direction have shaken some States out of their complacency and brought into the open some issues that had been festering below the surface for some time.

The Committee expresses concern, however, about the atmosphere of complacency, which may reduce efforts to prevent and eliminate child labour.

The United Nations has taken advantage of the lull to complete plans for assistance to spontaneous returns and to advance its preparations for the coming return season (October 2005 May 2006).

Though we note substantive progress in the field of conventional arms control, there is yet no place for complacency in that regard.

With such resistance to change, it is no wonder that so many political leaders try to lull their subjects to sleep, hoping that when everyone wakes up, it will all have proven a dream.

The Philippines welcomes the resumption of direct dialogue on practical matters between Belgrade and Pristina after a lull of more than 12 months and the expressed willingness of Belgrade to engage in that important process.

Sometimes I'm concerned that we hear about it so much that we've come to accept longer lives with a kind of a complacency, even ease.

It also believes that those commitments must not foster a general sense of complacency or divert attention away from our fundamental goal of nuclear disarmament.

Other possible constraints on growth included a lull or even reversal of the trend in appreciating housing prices in many large economies and a significant rise in long term interest rates and risk adverse financial markets.

But that is no excuse for complacency. Over the last 15 years, the eurozone s economic performance has been disappointing, and its policy system must answer for this.

In the US, slower private sector deleveraging given the fiscal stimulus from the extension of unemployment benefits for 13 months, the payroll tax cut, and maintenance of current income tax rates for another two years could lull policymakers into assuming that relatively large fiscal and current account imbalances can continue indefinitely. This could generate financial strains over the medium term and protectionist pressures in the short term.

Meanwhile, policymakers were lulled into complacency by the widespread acceptance of economic theories such as the efficient market hypothesis, which assumes that investors act rationally and use all available information when making their decisions. As a result, markets were deregulated, making it easier to trade assets that were perceived to be safe, but were in fact not.

Conscious of the need to combat the negative effects of cultures of violence and complacency in the face of current dangers in this field through long term programmes of education and training,

CAMBRIDGE As inflation continues to soar everywhere, maybe the world s central bankers need a jolt to awaken them from complacency. How about holding one of their bi monthly meetings in hyperinflationary Zimbabwe?

CAMBRIDGE As inflation continues to soar everywhere, maybe the world s central bankers need a jolt to awaken them from complacency. How about holding one of their bi monthly meetings in hyperinflationary Zimbabwe?

I was like So, the idea that we create this false this sense of complacency when all we do is talk about somebody else's responsibility as though it's our own, and vice versa.

And that is why so many economists and market participants were shocked by Yellen s apparent complacency. With US unemployment now at 5.1 , standard monetary theory dictates that interest rates must be raised urgently.

OXFORD Recent evidence suggests that much of the world has entered a period of low financial market volatility. But this is no time for complacency more turbulent times are likely to lie ahead.

While a slowdown in the pace of reform might bring temporary relief, it would almost certainly reverse Spain s hard won achievements. Indeed, with the worst now over, complacency is the Spanish economy s worst enemy.

So, do we Europeans intend to remain relevant in the twenty first century, which means strengthening our position? Or are we prepared to undergo a painful decline brought on by nationalist infighting and complacency?

Tocqueville despised the elites of his time for their complacency in the face of the deracinating force of mass democracy. Will the myopia of our leaders also serve as an agent of his disquieting prophecy?

A potential Grexit will present entirely new challenges to China in the coming months, and the country must avoid complacency over its own exposure. A battle plan for both the present and the future is needed now.

The relatively few professional economists who warned of the current crisis were people, it seems, who not only read the scholarly economics literature, but also brought into play more personal judgment intuitive comparisons with past historical episodes conclusions about speculative trading, price bubbles, and the stability of confidence evaluations of the moral purposes of economic actors and impressions that complacency had set in, lulling watchdogs to sleep.

But it is the agenda of pending reforms that should stifle excessive complacency. That agenda, with obvious country differences, spans five important areas, which together should be the focus of policy attention aimed at solidifying the region s transformation.