But what happens when the Fed's monetary policy fails to work? "Since the start of the global financial crisis last August, monetary policy has been remarkably ineffective," writes Wolfgang Münchau at the Financial Times.
The NHS primary care trust that had oversight of the contract was "deeply ineffective" in writing and managing it, did not impose any penalties when the failings were discovered, and instead made bonus payments to Serco even though it fell well short of required standards.
"Unjust and ineffective," he wrote in one sentencing opinion.
"Regrettably, many efforts to seek concrete solutions to the environmental crisis have proved ineffective," Francis writes in his encyclical.
"The Liberal Democrat policy on fees is regressive and ineffective," he wrote, in a paper entitled "Time's Up".
At the time that the video was posted, those policies were so poorly known as to be ineffective, he wrote.
"Policies that currently govern employee ownership across Europe are often archaic and highly ineffective," they write in an open letter, due to be given to national politicians across Europe next week.
These laws are ineffective, Casey writes, and may even lead to an increase in injuries if the people drawn to the "cache" of owning a prohibited dog are likely to bring out that dog's aggressive tendencies.
If the action is ineffective, honest writing must report that.
"The respirator program was totally ineffective," the official wrote.
"The mass collection of DNA samples by the police is a serious intrusion on personal privacy that has proven to be both ineffective and wasteful," wrote John Reinstein, the legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, in a letter to the Cape and Islands district attorney, Michael O'Keefe, and the Truro police chief, John Thomas.
