The link between mortality and broader demographic change seems weak.
Consumer spending seems unsustainably strong given weak income growth, shrunken wealth, and tight-fisted banks.
Mr Sarkozy's constant taunting of the president, unthinkable were Mr Chirac not so weak, seems only to cement his popularity among voters fed up after ten years of rule by la chiraquie.
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The financial system is weak but seems to be trying to right itself with TARP money and other government programs even as people are spending less and trying hard to pay their bills if they still have a job.
And taking a long-term view, the euro is not as weak as it seems.
The expectation seems to be for another weak job report.
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While the economic establishment still seems to think that investors like weak currencies so they can buy on the cheap, experience shows clearly that global investors are heavily growth- and momentum-oriented.
Analysts said that so far it seems that investors in other economically weak European countries like Spain and Italy have not move their bank deposits over fears tax levies, which was and remains a concern.
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Even so, seven years after the crisis, and with growth in the emerging East Asian countries now strong, it seems odd that investment is still so weak.
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It seems that NatWest is being punished for weak management.
Mortgage lending has not rebounded (and housing sales are weak), consumer spending seems pretty moderate, and most business either have ample cash already on the balance sheet or no immediate plans to expand.
It seems more characteristically leonine to leap at the weak and slow prey.
Armed with this weak jobs report, the Fed seems poised to make good on its plan for other round of quantitative easing (in English: printing money).
If that is as weak as many fear, the IMF seems to think that the Budget in March will be the time for the chancellor to take stock.
In the process, the company is raising new questions about slowing growth for the broader pre-paid phone sector, which seems to be taking a hit from both a weak consumer economy and intense competition.
Their rationale, it seems, was that the original device was just too weak to hurt enough.
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The internecine fighting, which had been percolating at a slow boil in recent months, seems to have finally reached a tipping point, overwhelming a weak and obviously temporary ceasefire brokered by Egypt.
And Germany seems to be able to work with either a strong or a weak euro.
This seems to contrast the bearish signals that can be gleaned from extremely weak insider trading data.
It seems unlikely that Brett could last long as the hitting coach of a weak-hitting squad that has grown accustomed to losing.
What seems critical is a keen awareness of the strong ideas that can develop from weak signals.
It also seems that training works best when (as now) the overall labour market is weak.
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For JPM seems to be suffering from internecine warfare, a faulty reporting systems, m a weak tracking ability on risk control and holes galore in its risk management edifice.
As long as the negative headlines which plagued the euro area in May are held at bay, and considering the weak economic data streaming from the U.S. of late, the upward momentum stills seems to favor the euro.
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