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The real sticking point for QE relates to traction.
Japan’s massive QQE campaign has faced similar traction problems.
Add to that a functioning welfare system, and it is clear why the inequality-focused outrage that has fueled voter revolts elsewhere is gaining little traction in Germany.
Europe is slipping back into recession just when recovery in the United States is finally getting some traction.
Indeed, not only are governments running out of fiscal bullets as debt surges, but monetary policy is having little short-run traction in economies suffering insolvency – not just liquidity – problems.
If the money invested in all American foreign interventions had been redirected to promoting prosperity domestically, Trump’s candidacy never would have gained traction.
In this context, political parties and movements criticizing or opposing the EU have gained considerable traction, particularly in Western Europe.
They acted as if the strategy that helped end the crisis could achieve the same traction in fostering a cyclical rebound in the real economy.
With the exception of the United Kingdom, the extreme free-market view gained less traction in Europe in recent decades than it did in the US; nonetheless, the challenge of implementing financial reforms in the eurozone is actually more difficult.
But the West’s delay in resolving Kosovo’s status permitted that opposition to gain traction.
As these parties gain traction, the euro’s chances of survival diminish.
By contrast, new renewable technologies are gaining traction, illustrating a fundamental shift in international energy policy and investment strategies.
Fortunately, according to UNEP’s two-year inquiry into policy options for greening financial and capital markets, the movement is gaining traction in emerging countries such as Brazil, Kenya, and Indonesia, as well as developed economies like the United Kingdom.
And when the idea was revived again during the financial turmoil of the early 1990s and in the early stages of the euro crisis, it gained no more political traction than it did in the late 1970s.
This thesis is now gaining much broader traction – major newspapers now report a broadening criminal probe by the federal government – and by New York’s state attorney general – into the US financial sector’s residential lending and related securities practices.
The most important lesson pertains to traction — the link between Fed policy and its congressionally mandated objectives of maximum employment and price stability.
While much was made of the migrant caravan making its way from Central America through Mexico, issues such as trade with China, Iran, North Korea, and even Russia and cyber subterfuge didn’t get much traction.
The PAD initially found little traction.
With the after-effects of the financial crisis fading, and AI perhaps starting to gain traction, trend US output growth can easily stay strong for the next several years (though, of course, a recession is also possible).
The issue of shame, and the need to take it more seriously in poverty-reduction policies, is slowly gaining traction.
Their preferred strategy, which is now gaining traction, is to move toward a “resistance economy.”
As the disruptive forces gain traction, existing business models face difficult adaptation challenges, and regulators begin to fall behind.
In the US, Trump’s ascendancy and the political traction gained by Senator Bernie Sanders’s primary campaign reflect many of the same sentiments that led to Brexit.
Nonetheless, extremist forces are dangerously close to taking political power in some European states, and are gaining traction even in formerly liberal bastions.
As Assad’s narrative gains traction, fence-sitters will gradually embrace it, thus strengthening his societal support.
Now, a third explanation is gaining traction: declines in full-time work opportunities and real wages are both due to automation.
Chirkeisky, the second Sufi leader to be assassinated in Dagestan this year, had been a vocal critic of Wahhabism, the Saudi petrodollar-funded brand of orthodoxy that has been gaining traction in the region.
Otherwise, pro-growth reforms will lose political legitimacy, enabling destructive nationalist, nativist, and protectionist forces to continue to gain traction and thus to undermine medium- and longer-term growth.
One thing we know about the North Koreans is that, unless they can use such rhetoric in their own propaganda (they got far more traction out of former US President George W. Bush’s infamous “axis of evil” remark than he ever did), they simply don’t care what is said about them.
The low interest rate helped by making the dollar more competitive, but otherwise monetary policy appears to have lost traction because of the condition of the housing sector and the dysfunctional state of the credit markets.
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