impulse

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The actor’s impulse paid off with an intimate moment for the two former rivals.

From The Wall Street Journal

While the chief source of demand for Iran’s oil is China, the continued deflation of China’s property bubble and generally weak domestic economy limit any potential global demand impulse.

From MarketWatch

The oil upside trend is “a temporary stagflationary impulse, not a new oil super-cycle,” she says.

From The Wall Street Journal

“In the near term, there are some inflationary impulses from the rise in oil prices over the last couple of months,” Angelo Kourkafas, senior global investment strategist at Edward Jones, said in an interview Monday.

From MarketWatch

This is the dynamic the economist Albert Hirschman warned about: That loyalty is what turns frustration into voice—the impulse to fix what is broken rather than flee.

From The Wall Street Journal