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No wonder liberals have trouble gaining traction with the electorate.
The United States’ economy is gaining traction.
But nuclear issues still struggle for public resonance and political traction.
While a transition to a low-carbon, resource-efficient economy is gaining traction globally, some claim either that it is merely a glossy repackaging of the sustainable-development agenda, or, worse, a plot to constrain rather than liberate growth in developing and least-developed countries.
For example, I know a brilliant chief technology officer who started a company that never gained traction because he simply couldn’t manage it.
Triffin issued his warning more than 50 years ago, but it has recently gained traction, as China’s rise has made the world increasingly disinclined to tolerate the instability caused by a dollar-denominated system.
With an increasing number of Germans losing confidence in a European solution to the ongoing refugee crisis, calls for German isolation and unilateralism are growing louder – and far-right political forces are gaining traction.
In Palestine, Israeli colonies continue to grow with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ignoring Washington’s efforts to secure traction for the peace process.
Another, less visible problem is that private businesses’ own efforts to ensure diversity have not gained sufficient traction.
Singapore’s discourse on meritocracy has failed to gain much traction abroad, largely because it was not presented as a universal ideal.
End Austerity NowEDINBURGH – In recent weeks, talk about a budding recovery in the eurozone has gained traction, with key indices pointing to expansion in the core countries – data that many are citing as evidence that austerity is finally working.
It was not long before feudalism began to dissolve; liberal and democratic values gained traction; women secured greater rights; and economic systems emerged that could boost productivity, achieve high growth rates, and improve living standards.
No wonder that fringe political movements are gaining traction throughout the eurozone.
But the idea has lately been gaining much more traction, with some regarding it as a solution to today’s technology-driven economic disruptions.
One idea currently gaining traction is to tax firms offering free-to-use digital services differently, so that their intangible value receives the same tax treatment as the tangible value produced by manufacturers and traditional service providers.
A peace process conceived as a means to weaken and isolate the winners of an election – Hamas – is unlikely to gain much traction.
And now a related distorted narrative – one that in 2014 could needlessly undermine policies that are key to improving America’s economic recovery – is gaining traction.
Expert computer systems are also gaining traction in medicine, law, finance, and even entertainment.
Indeed, with financial bubbles growing, the nature of financial risk morphing, inequality worsening, and non-traditional – and in some cases extreme – political forces continuing to gain traction, the calming influence of unconventional monetary policies is being stretched to its limits.
And in Palestine, protests against the use of defamation laws to imprison political opponents have gained traction, with popular support for Bakr having played a key role in spurring the agreement that allowed her to return to her house in Nablus without being arrested or called in for questioning.
Advocacy continues to gain traction.
The danger all along has been that open-ended unconventional monetary easing would fail to achieve traction in the real economy, and would inject excess liquidity into US and global financial markets that could lead to asset bubbles, reckless risk taking, and the next crisis.
The good news is that data journals where researchers can publish their datasets are already gaining traction.
Only US exports have maintained some traction, thanks to the weaker dollar.
Building on this momentum, the campaigns for debt relief, trade reform, and increasing aid to poor countries have gained traction.
As such, action by central banks will repeatedly fail to gain sufficient traction.
Far-right nationalist parties are gaining traction in Europe, while millions of undocumented migrants suffer in the shadows.
Europe’s first order of business should be to accept reality: the emerging economies are catching up in terms of innovation while the EU is losing traction, with China on the cusp of surpassing Europe as the second-largest hub for venture capital globally, behind only the United States.
Moderate Muslim activists and intellectuals tried valiantly to counter the radicals, but seemed unable to gain traction.
QE’s impact hinges on the “three Ts” of monetary policy: transmission (the channels by which monetary policy affects the real economy); traction (the responsiveness of economies to policy actions); and time consistency (the unwavering credibility of the authorities’ promise to reach specified targets like full employment and price stability).
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