One big constraint is that Europe is in a straitjacket of its own making.
They said the Fed had given itself another straitjacket - which it would live to regret.
Watanabe insists that he won't try to squeeze ex-Lehman employees into a Nomura straitjacket.
Thomas Friedman argued that governments had to don the golden straitjacket of market discipline.
And if electronic devices are put into a technological straitjacket, consumers will not use them.
But as the dollar appreciated in the late 1990s, the peg turned into a straitjacket for Argentina.
At the same time, the continuation of reduced taxes keeps the federal government in a fiscal straitjacket.
But having donned his fiscal straitjacket, Mr Osborne is nevertheless doing quite a lot of wriggling around inside it.
Mr. Ryan's official budget proposal follows CBO scoring, but he is also trying to break out of that straitjacket.
It helps, too, that the world has abandoned the monetary straitjacket of the gold standard it wore in the 1930s.
In a regulatory straitjacket and dominated by a state-run banking system, Israel suffered a "lost decade" from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s.
With economies performing so poorly, fiscal as well as monetary relaxation would make sense, but the pact acts as a fiscal straitjacket.
Could it be that experiences abroad help unlock a creative straitjacket?
The moon struggled in its straitjacket: a tremor like that of an earthquake caused avalanches of empty cans to slide down from the mountain of refuse.
In part because wastage has been justified as a means of maintaining social harmony, says Masao Miyamoto, a psychiatrist who wrote a bestselling book entitled Straitjacket Society.
In part because inefficiency has been justified as a means of maintaining social harmony, says Masao Miyamoto, a psychiatrist who wrote a bestselling book entitled Straitjacket Society.
The new monetary straitjacket can be maintained for a few months at most, if it is not to plunge Brazil into recession and its banks into insolvency.
But it suggests a bleak future for countries locked into the monetary straitjacket of the euro, in the absence of easier monetary policy by the European Central Bank.
To conservative critics, this is a straitjacket that stifles innovation.
Part of Mr Blair's political problem is that in its first two years, the government confined itself in a straitjacket by promising to stay within the Tories' spending plans.
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If Keynes was to live for our time, his economic philosophy had to be untangled from the theoretical straitjacket in which he had suffocated it in the General Theory.
The bottom line is that a growing number of Republicans are deciding to throw off the ideological straitjacket to get serious about actually reducing the deficit and the debt.
Yet this neatly stitched straitjacket is beginning to chafe.
Pols and power bureaucrats have been seized with the notion that the generation of electricity can be free of bureaucratic oversight but that the transmission and distribution of power must remain in a regulatory straitjacket.
"It's a way of expressing themselves as a group, " says Miyamoto Masao, social critic and author of the book Straitjacket Society, who sees the oversized socks as just one sign of increasing independence among today's teens.
Her SEC put a straitjacket on the PCAOB as soon the Supreme Court made the decision that allowed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, and the PCAOB which came out of it, to go on with only slight adjustments.
Ironically, it is Germany which forced through the pact, which was seen as an integral part of monetary union but was meant to impose a straitjacket on potentially irresponsible countries like Italy, not the government in Berlin.
We are not placed in a straitjacket and force fed oil, no one comes around at night and illicitly sprinkles coal on the backyard and no one at all pipes gas into our cookers so that we must burn it or blow the house up.
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You know, you go all those years without any sleep, and you're finally out there giving health care and all of a sudden you're told, here's a straitjacket we'd like you to wear to work every day and still figure out how to make these people well.
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