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complacent

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He never rests on yesterday’s successes and doesn’t get complacent.

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Wall Street has been too complacent about inflation, and too quick to predict the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates, for years.

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"Markets appear complacent as the ground shifts," it said in its financial stability report, which noted risks from trade tensions, geopolitical uncertainty and rising sovereign indebtedness.

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In its semiannual report on financial stability, the IMF wrote: “Risk asset prices are well above fundamentals, increasing the probability of disorderly corrections…Markets appear complacent as the ground shifts.”

Looking back, there were signs that investors were beginning to feel a bit too complacent.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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