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Of course, the EU has often proved that, when push comes to shove, inertia prevails.
The ingrained inertia of the current regime, however, seems to preclude any early move toward that.
As in the Bible story, when Peter and John said to a beggar, “rise up and walk,” Africans are called upon to walk away from ignorance, inertia, apathy, and fatalism.
Three years after the global economy’s near-collapse, the feeble recovery has already petered out in most developed countries, whose economic inertia will drag down the rest.
The result of Germany’s approach – “do as we do, or leave us alone” – is inertia, at a moment when Europe desperately needs momentum.
First, by an immediate break in the country's inflationary inertia as expectations of continuing inflation were shattered.
That the Communist party leader Gennady Zyuganov didn't rebuke Makashov right away, and that the Duma voted against depriving the general of his parliamentary immunity and special rights (it did, however, pass a resolution against stirring up ethnic conflicts, mentioning Makashov by name) probably reflects mental inertia rather than outright support.
And, already, labor-market flexibility has been undermined by structural inertia, including difficulties in retooling and retraining workers, particularly the long-term unemployed.
In the rankings of economists, by contrast, criteria such as gender or geographic origin confirm the overall inertia.
Given the massive inertia inherent in the greenhouse effect, the gap between responsible and irresponsible behavior will start resulting in different temperatures only in a quarter-century, and major consequences will follow only in 50 years.
There is an alternative to IMF-sponsored inertia on debt relief.
Institutional inertia, always a powerful force at the Fund, is now at a cyclical low.
The euro will likely survive the year, inertia being what it is.
The good news for Americans is that there is enormous inertia in the world trading and financial system.
And, surely, academics are also to blame for the inertia, with many of them still defending elegant but deeply flawed models of perfect markets that create an illusion of safety for a system that is in fact highly risk-prone.
The interesting question is this: how much are price discrepancies due to sheer ignorance and inertia, and how much are they due to factors that are unlikely to change with the Euro's arrival?
Europeans are completely unprepared to defend themselves, owing to inertia, complacency, and lassitude.
These great shifts have been underway for decades, but inertia has until recently blunted their impact, as older generations retained old allegiances.
Overcoming inertia will not be easy.
It is only a matter of time – of overcoming habit, prejudice, and inertia – before what is accepted in principle becomes practice.
Setting goals can overcome inertia, but everyone must have a stake in establishing them: countries, states, cities, organizations, companies, and people everywhere.
But recent bad macro news has been bad for markets, owing to the perception of policy inertia.
The first is inertia, combined with (or disguised as) idealism – the mistaken idea that the Internet should be free not just for speech, but also from payment.
But the biggest risk is to remain mired in outdated structures and to succumb to inertia.
New financing could unlock today’s policy inertia over climate change.
Finally, one must consider the price adjustments that are likely to arise from the inertia of existing trade flows.
Within the framework of multilateralism, countries must make the effort to smooth over their differences and deepen their relations: we must conquer the inertia that moves us towards old thinking – and old alliances.
Firms that succumb to such inertia will probably sink, rather than swim, in the new global economy.
Yet climate change has been subject to so much political inertia, false information, and wishful thinking for the last few decades that we continue to see ineffective or impossible solutions, rather than an effort to address root causes.
That inertia is clearly visible in Hong Kong’s economic statistics.
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