impulse
Example Sentences
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While the chief source of demand for Iran’s oil is China, the continued deflation of China’s property bubble and generally weak domestic economy limit any potential global demand impulse.
From MarketWatch
The oil upside trend is “a temporary stagflationary impulse, not a new oil super-cycle,” she says.
“In the near term, there are some inflationary impulses from the rise in oil prices over the last couple of months,” Angelo Kourkafas, senior global investment strategist at Edward Jones, said in an interview Monday.
From MarketWatch
This is the dynamic the economist Albert Hirschman warned about: That loyalty is what turns frustration into voice—the impulse to fix what is broken rather than flee.
Those dueling impulses, rage and reason, are the focus of “Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution” by Jonathan Turley, a law professor at George Washington University.
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