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.
Indeed, it is demanding that other countries abandon complexity and fit their history into the Soviet straitjacket.
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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.
The business of assembling congressional majorities in order to loosen the economic straitjacket of the constitution is painfully slow.
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.
Exposing the religious and political straitjacket that is implied by the jihadists' propaganda would help to divide them from the audiences they seek to persuade.
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.
No, of course, I do not mean his prescriptions for the future, for they were well off into loonie land and deserving of the straitjacket mentioned above.
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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.
Putting a muzzle and straitjacket on her and then scripting her so tightly that she came across as foolish was a "colossal blunder, " according to one of Palin's closest aides.
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.
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