Now back to Obama and the administration's financial muddle that's causing a high-pitched level of uncertainty.
But even this souped-up version of the 'muddle through' scenario requires some movement from Germany.
Again, this pattern occurs only if Europe fails to muddle through its current crisis.
Banks across the world have been suffering as the global economy continues to muddle through.
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Today's economic muddle, which resembles the 1970s, is a classic breeding ground for entrepreneurship.
And let no one argue that the current muddle is in any way humane.
Should we simply just leave the country to muddle along for a decade or so?
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The rest, the restructurers assert, is a muddle worth less than the sum of its assets.
And so the boys carried on into puberty, in a colourful muddle of hearsay and experiment.
The world economy may well muddle through, as it has so often in the past.
But the Hammond report paints a picture of dreadful muddle and confusion surrounding the Hinduja affair.
The country's president, Vaira Vike-Freiberga, castigates corruption and muddle in the country's administration with increasing venom.
But in practice they have continued the previous strategy of attempting to muddle through.
Failure to get this leads to a completely muddle-headed analysis of what has gone wrong.
Overlapping jurisdiction between the central government and local authorities has created a regulatory muddle.
The muddle is not helped by America's growing eagerness to find a quick way out of Afghanistan.
Yet if Europe continues along its path of ossification and muddle, the outcome will be far worse.
If the cooks spend their time fighting, no wonder the broth is a bit of a muddle.
Yet there are two reasons for thinking the muddle might not matter much to the Republicans' future.
The assumption is still that the euro zone will somehow muddle through, at least for a while.
The most likely prospect is that Mr Estrada will muddle along in office for a while yet.
Last year alone Guantanamo detainees received more than 14, 000 cards, the vast majority from muddle-headed well-wishers and sympathizers.
He uses jump-cutting and wobbly hand-held camerawork to create the illusion of immediacy, of lifelike spontaneity and muddle.
With Europeans in such a muddle over little Greece, no wonder investors are so terrified by big Italy.
The economy, it seems, continues to muddle along, stuck in second gear, as economist David Levy recently noted.
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Democracies certainly muddle their way through, trading interest against interest, rather than blazing a clear and exhilarating course.
We'll have to muddle through, with just about everybody unhappy with either the result or how it was achieved.
Wall Street, which has built most of this into its expectations, continues to muddle along, trading in a range.
The obstacles to fundamental change are so forbidding that leaders will always be tempted to try to muddle through.
Besides, went the argument, the EU will muddle through - they always do.
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