Some denounce it for doing less to curb greenhouse gases than was once promised.
And consumers, made more cautious by a crippled housing market, spend less freely, curbing the economy's growth.
If national leaders want to win them they might do well to talk less about curbing numbers and more about making the most of London's rising ones instead.
According to Abyd Karmali, the global head of carbon markets for Bank of America Merrill Lynch, the biggest obstacle to the expansion of trading systems globally is the willingness of politicians to take the time to explain to voters that it will cost far less to curb climate change now than to deal with the problem later.
These cuts are less about curbing spending, and more about the systematic dismantling of civil society that requires critical journalism, quality education, affordable health care, and consumer, environmental and financial protections.
With less cash, consumers have curbed spending, leading thousands of taxpaying businesses to fail.
It has been far less successful in curbing the dirty side-effects of industrial development.
But it has been less eager to curb their missile attacks on Israel or to stop them infiltrating Egypt.More recently, however, Hamas has closed the tunnel complex to slow infiltration and gun-running.
Even though it does mean that more private money pours into health care, such a system is less likely to curb wasteful spending than more sophisticated methods such as fund-holding GP s in Britain.
A sharp decline in stocks, it was argued, could make people feel less rich and curb their spending, thereby slowing the economy's torpid growth and lessening the Fed's need to act to keep inflation at bay.
