Ten-year Treasury yields are now 4%, which is decidedly odd for an economy that is growing as fast as America's.
But its odd, state-dominated economy makes it particularly sensitive to verdicts of this kind.
Add it up and you come away feeling that Indonesia is a deeply troubled economy with the odd bright spot.
Considering that interest rates are at very low levels already, it seems rather odd to claim that the economy will suddenly rebound if they get pushed down a bit further.
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The economy of the City went from strength to strength over the intervening 40 odd years so the springs really are not vital to the economy.
The least you can say if you believe in the new economy is that this is odd.
Against a background of a faltering economy and stockmarket, there have been odd stirrings among a shunned group of shares.
The odd sensation today is that the United States is looking the healthiest economy in the world.
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Talking of the possible need for even more unconventional economic policies ( as Adair Turner has been doing), to ward off the risk of the UK economy turning Japanese and stagnating for decades, something pretty odd and unconventional has been happening in the regulation of banks, for just that reason.
Which does mean of course that an attempt to model the economy as something either in or approaching equilibrium is really rather odd.
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Odd, since the Obama campaign has also criticised Mr McCain for not paying much attention to the economy.
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With the unemployment rate at its lowest level since December 2008 and the economy adding more jobs than any major analyst estimated in February, it may strike some as odd that the White House chose to play down the number.
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Perhaps most odd is the fact that a security breach and a rash of counterfeiting were crucial to the development of the economy.
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The world economy's other weak link, Japan, faltered half-way through 2004 and despite the odd spark has not yet sputtered into life again.
Meanwhile, it has talked a cautious game: no firm promise that any interest rate will be cut, but the odd hint that all the options are open in monetary policy, especially when it comes to protecting the real economy from the turbulence on the markets.
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