The problem is that for a lot of folks like Dennis, once COBRA ran out, before this crisis and before the Recovery Act, they were just out of luck.
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And that was true not just during this crisis but it was true for the decade before this crisis.
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When board members were interviewed after a severe crisis, many had felt that something was wrong before the crisis became apparent.
The problems that led to the crisis were years in the making, and even before the crisis, we faced significant long-run challenges.
But, given the huge losses amassed by Chilean firms that invested in Argentina before the crisis, most will wait until the chaos has clearly passed before opening their cheque-books.
Visit the crisis, he says, brandishing his little rapid-reaction force, before the crisis visits you.
Housing starts provide another example: before the crisis they had topped 2 million during some months, something that had only happened twice before (after the Korean War as veterans from two wars came back, and in the mid-80s when the Fed lowered rates, Blitzer explained).
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So middle-class families were generally having a very difficult time even before the crisis hit.
ECB's broad acceptance of collateral before the crisis may actually have added fuel to the fire.
GSE-backed securities above the levels where even junk bonds were trading before the crisis.
Before the crisis was over, Murdoch had to sell off a number of treasured assets.
The BP civil engineer had only arrived in Algeria a week before the crisis.
But shoppers are careful, spending 20 minutes on average looking versus 5 minutes before the crisis.
He insisted his trip - ahead of September elections - had been planned before the crisis.
Unemployment, at 8.1%, is above its level before the crisis but close to the rich-country average.
Germany did a lot of hard work before the crisis, and is now reaping the benefits.
Construction prices are at least 20% lower than they were before the crisis, says one.
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Europe had much to ponder before the crisis, from ageing populations to energy security.
Before the crisis, the homeless were usually 35- to 50-year-old reclusive men from poor backgrounds.
In the decade before the crisis, financial companies were paying 20-27% of all corporation-tax receipts.
The IMF now reckons it may have risen from 5% before the crisis to 6-6.75%.
Before the crisis, Southeast Asian countries relied heavily for their expansion on intra-Asian trade.
Housing went from making up more than 6% of GDP before the crisis to 2.2% currently.
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Bank profits soared in the years before the crisis as Western economies binged on cheap credit.
It's not enough just to recover and get back to where we were before the crisis.
Most of those that are being launched were ordered before the crisis and put into storage.
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On the contrary, in 2021 the euro is being used by more countries than before the crisis.
After all, before the Crisis those who ran Indonesia gorged at tables heaped with private foreign capital.
Before the crisis, the ECB would aim to keep overnight interest rates close to the refi rate.
The proposal for an AMF came from Japan in September 1997, before the Crisis had fully unfolded.
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