India, Jan. 1 -- The world will press pause in 2024. Everyone from policymakers to homemakers will prefer to be cautious. There will be less money to throw around, a need to replenish weapons stockpiles, fears of domestic unrest as debts pile up, and generally less leeway for the daring and innovative. Lessons will be drawn by tinpot types from the misadventures of swashbucklers such as Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu and Russia's Vladimir Putin....