The economic funk in Europe and America has meant that the industrialised world's equity markets have been fairly moribund.
With most of Asia, including Japan, already mired in its worst funk in decades and Russia's economy leveled, the fresh shock seemed to heighten the prospects for a severe worldwide economic drought.
Last year, Jazzman Records released a compilation largely assembled by Carolina funk and soul historian Jason Perlmutter, called Carolina Funk: First in Funk.
Financial markets were in a general funk, caused in part by America's bank-reform plans and in part by worries about policy-tightening in China.
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He is also known to play small club dates in New York as a part of The Robert Glasper Experiment, in which he further explores the intersection of hip-hop and jazz, with some neo-soul and funk thrown in.
It also features former Clash bassist Paul Simonon and the 67-year-old drummer Tony Allen who, as a member Fela Kuti's Nigerian funk band in the '70s, proved himself to be one of the greatest groove stokers in recorded history.
Paul Funk, began in 2007 after a Marine unit moved to the west side of the brigade's sector, cutting off al Qaeda's roads south to Fallujah and north to Tamariyah, Samarra, and Tikrit.
Roach is largely correct in stressing the importance of deleveraging in the current economic funk, and the impotence of standard policy tools in overcoming that.
RadioShack has been in a terrible funk because its stores--close and convenient for most Americans looking for a trusted name in consumer electronics--have increasingly seemed irrelevant due to big-box retailers.
Moreover, the housing market is still in a funk and will remain so for years.
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Chang is also a bass guitarist in Punjabi funk band BlackMahal, as well as tech-exec cover band CoverFlow.
In the 1980s the country was in a funk about the rise of Japan and its own vanishing competitiveness.
The Democrats are more energized, the Republicans are kind of in a funk.
There are no headlines, but the municipals market is in a funk.
The GOP was in a funk, if not suffering from full-bore depression.
With its biggest export market in a funk, China needs to accelerate the rebalancing of its economy towards domestic consumption, with the help of a stronger currency.
Investors are in a funk, and junk bond yields are too high to support the feverish pace of mergers and leveraged buyouts that kept Wall Street so busy last year.
Stack's sobering perspectives force investors to consider the unpleasant possibility that U.S. equity markets are doomed to follow the lead of Japanese stocks caught in the funk of a 13-year bear market.
The probability remains that, in the coming carve-up, the Republican triumvirate of Perry, Craddick and Dewhurst will get most of what it wants, if only because the Democrats are in a funk.
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Her task: Help the Internet pioneer regain its stature after years in a financial funk.
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