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

"Both sides need to get back round the table to break the logjam."

From BBC • Dec. 1, 2025

Hastie was evidently determined to break the racial logjam in the War Department, yet unlike many civil rights advocates he seemed willing to pay the price of slow progress to obtain lasting improvement.

From Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 by MacGregor, Morris J.