logjam

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The S&P 500 is expensive on 18 of 20 metrics and a private-equity logjam could force big investors to dump stocks.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

“The industry’s liquidity logjam comes as it sits on a stock of 32,000 unsold companies worth a stunning $3.8 trillion,” Bain & Company wrote in a late February report on the private-equity sector.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 19, 2026

But sustained fighting could also further logjam oil production and drive up the cost of other goods the region exports, including aluminum, farm fertilizer, and natural gas.

From Slate • Mar. 6, 2026

Wins by Tampa Bay and Atlanta would create a three-team logjam at 8-9 that would be decided by a head-to-head results tie-breaker -- which would send Carolina into the playoffs even with a defeat.

From Barron's • Jan. 1, 2026

Rather wud I have perished in a logjam thin to've indured this ingratichood.

From Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War by Dunne, Finley Peter