Yet as the economic outlook has suddenly darkened in recent weeks I detect an unfamiliar mood among policy makers: policy fatigue, a sort of learned helplessness.
A recent earthquake drill in Shinjuku railway station, where up to 200, 000 commuters might head after an earthquake in the hope of getting home, sounded a warning.
In a recent report to the World Trade Organisation's (WTO) 153 member states, Pascal Lamy, the club's director-general, sounded a warning about state aid intended to mitigate the economic crisis.
Recent findings lend strong support to the theory that a black hole lies at the center of the Milky Way and of many of the 100 billion other galaxies estimated to exist in the universe.
The rate of injuries in occupational settings has increased in recent years, and more than one half are back injuries resulting from improper lifting and bending techniques (Owen and Garg, 1991).
This is now a question for Gloria MacKenzie, an 84-year-old widow who recently emerged from her small, tin-roofed house in Florida to collect the biggest undivided lottery jackpot in history.