Moreover, the housing market is still in a funk and will remain so for years.
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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.
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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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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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.
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Japan, meanwhile, is in such a funk it looks like it may never get out.
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At the least, Euroland is mired in a GDP funk for years and years.
Mr Delors depended not only on a close Franco-German alliance, but also on the self-confidence of these countries, which are both now in a defensive funk.
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"I do not accept that the Nazis in the last frantic days of the camp, when they were in a blue funk, would have gone around with buckets of cement filling the holes that they were going to dynamite, " he told the court.
For the last couple of years, he said, he has been in a "mental funk, " but recently decided to "hit the reset button" on his career.
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.
Chang is also a bass guitarist in Punjabi funk band BlackMahal, as well as tech-exec cover band CoverFlow.
But as if to confound all debate about what jazz means in 2012, funk was a dominating presence at the festival.
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Surely wise Chinese, looking at how long it took Japan to pull this off without major labor shocks (more than a decade of economic funk) will want to set about it in a full and forceful way.
Byrd began moving toward a more commercial sound with the funk-jazz fusion album "Fancy Free" in 1969, taking a path followed by fellow trumpeters Miles Davis and Freddie Hubbard.
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