There are no easy answers for disaffected Britons fighting the economic currents.
It became clear to him that huge economic currents could easily swamp the bottom-line value analysis he had used so successfully since his days at Goldman.
For most Americans this probably does not matter much: in a largely supple economy, they flow far more smoothly from one job to another as the economic currents change than most Europeans do.
The stock market has found it difficult to deal with the competing economic currents.
Powerless to reverse the broader economic currents, the mayor has instead focused on small initiatives, including new rules that prohibit drying fish on balconies and require all Prato shopkeepers to speak Italian.
Even in many European and Asian societies that had retained traditional family structures and community ties, in long defiance of the economic currents pushing against them, young people today are leading lives driven and shaped by personal choice.
In some ways, the government is only riding the economic currents that come with development and high growth.
Political and economic currents run through the atlas, creating new vortices of activity and floods of expenditure.
The pool was full of sun-dappled bathers, most of whom were either ignoring or swimming against broader economic currents.
Despite the economic cross-currents, "our business is in a good place," Ms. Nordlie said.
"Under the current economic model, and with this economic policy," says Asdrúbal Oliveros of Ecoanalítica, "this [debt] looks unpayable".The effects are already apparent.
