"There is … a risk that Europe could fall into stagnation, which would have very serious implications for households, companies [and] banks," IMF first deputy managing director David Lipton told a conference in London.
But although Barcelona had fallen into stagnation before the Games and indeed needed a large-scale economic stimulus to modernize itself, it was already a major metropolitan area with a rich cultural history, not a far-flung spa town on the Black Sea.
Traditional PSO is easy to fall into stagnation when no particle discovers a position that is better than its previous best position for several generations.
Otherwise, it is much too easy to fall into stagnation, a forgetting of oneself for the sake of the staying together.
The OECD's report said that Japan was "arguably in an advanced stage" of economic stagnation, but said that the euro area may also be falling into a "stagnation trap".
The finance minister Lou Jiwei raised eyebrows in some quarters when he said China had only a 50 50 chance of escaping the middle income trap, the nightmare of a previously fast-growing economy which then falls back into stagnation, never graduating to high income status.
"It could be," he writes, "that modern democracy chronically risks falling into a cycle of periods of cultural stagnation interrupted by brief phases of undiscriminating assault on its vital traditions and institutions: dominated in both phases by the intellectually second-rate but socially and politically effective".
Too often since the birth of the A-League gifted Australian players have found themselves falling into the latter bucket: from Nathan Burns and Matthew Spiranovic to Bruce Djite and Michael Zullo, stagnation and frustration have been the lot of the Australian player trying to make his way at elite club level in Europe.
Things were falling into balance.
