Maybe that's what's really going on. How could we ever disentangle these two possibilites?

Cross border investment towards the euro area has increased, although here it is more difficult to disentangle the effect of the single currency from other concomitant events (such as privatizations or corporate mergers).

This prideful interpretation amounted to the siren song of an extremely accommodative monetary policy. Unable to disentangle the global and domestic pressures suppressing inflation, a price targeting Fed has erred consistently on the side of easy money.

To some degree, this hope is reinforced by Iran s perception of US President Barack Obama as a motivated partner in the nuclear talks. After all, a long term agreement would be both a singular foreign policy achievement for Obama and a boon to his efforts to disentangle the US from the Middle East.

The plan s central conceit is that government ingenuity can disentangle the trillion dollar sub prime mortgage loan market, even though Wall Street s own rocket scientists have utterly failed to do so. To boot, we have been told that government is so clever that it might even make money on the whole affair.

Folk ideas about heredity are a particularly powerful cultural tool, but they are not unique to pre modern societies. Even contemporary science has its own cultural ideologies about heredity, which are often difficult to disentangle from the complex data and high technology that we believe produces objective, value free glimpses of nature.

Earlier work by Lustig and her coauthors found that a declining wage premium that is, a drop in the wage gap between workers with high and low education explained part of the decline in the Gini coefficient in Latin American countries. It is not easy to disentangle the role of supply and demand factors in the reduction of the wage premium, but both seem to have played a role.