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Presumably the condom ads aren't false--the product does work; they fail on grounds of taste.
But you still have to wonder how such a smart policy wonk can fail to be bothered by the perversities and complications of the tax code.
Most of those Japanese acquisitions were complete bombs, but then most acquisitions fail.
The methods for detecting and then warning of surprise attack that the U.S. government had so painstakingly developed in the decades after Pearl Harbor did not fail; instead, they were not really tried.
The Internet economy is a more contemporary example of this phenomenon: Surely most people trying to strike it rich in this gold rush will fail, but right now their buoyant optimism is keeping the stock market high and making America wealthier.