constraint
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Really, the constraint on Chinese growth is chronic malinvestment of the country’s savings, which are diverted toward export-manufacturing industries and low-productivity state-owned enterprises rather than toward investment in domestic services and the like.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026
It opens by noting that for companies whose “access to the most advanced lithography is constrained, the constraint became binding earlier and bears down more severely.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026
He dismisses regulation as a constraint on US competitiveness with China, even as more and more Americans come out angrily against AI and the huge energy-consuming data centers needed to power it.
From Barron's • Jun. 2, 2026
It means recognizing that the right response to a geopolitical supply constraint is not necessarily to crush demand.
From MarketWatch • May 22, 2026
The differing availability of raw materials imposed an obvious constraint on material culture.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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