I feel lethargic.

When, despite an improved macroeconomic environment and progress towards more open policies, growth impulses remain weak or lethargic, the national development strategy and productive sector policies assume particular importance.

So the very behaviors that we think of as being so sexy in our culture are the very ones that leave so many people feeling tired, lethargic, depressed and impotent, and that s not much fun.

The newly admitted babies would cry for the first few hours, but their demands were not met, and so eventually they learned not to bother. Within a few days, they were listless, lethargic, and staring into space like all the others.

The only real disappointments are Brazil and Russia, both of which have struggled (again, not surprisingly) with much lower commodity prices. Their lethargic performance, together with the eurozone s, is the main reason why the world economy has not managed the 4.1 growth that optimists like me thought was feasible.

The OMT scheme s German opponents argue that it is unconstitutional, because it is not monetary policy, but fiscal policy aimed at financing insolvent and lethargic eurozone governments. They argue that it is not the ECB s job to rescue the euro or to prevent countries from exiting the monetary union.

Once the myriad legal and political obstacles are cleared, Mexico will be able to increase oil and gas production, drive down the price of electricity, and stimulate growth in an otherwise lethargic economy. One hopes that 12 years of obstruction by Peña Nieto s Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) will not mean that these reforms are too little, too late.