logjam

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During the pandemic, “it became really clear to me that we had to take big steps and break the logjam on what had been going on with housing,” she says.

From Barron's • May 31, 2026

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

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.