trail 後追いする

The poverty rate is the last, lonely trailing indicator of the business cycle,

strike down a bill 法案を却下する
strike down a law 法律を取り消す[無効にする]

dirigiste 統制経済的、統制政策の

Nor was globalization in any way slowed by the dirigiste regimes that developed in Asia —first in Japan in the Meiji era and later in the militarist period, then after World War II in Korea and Taiwan.