The Fed's inflation record is good and its response to the crisis has been creative and bold.

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All other so-called creative solutions to the debt crisis will fail.

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Despite a global economic crisis, cultural and creative industries are alive and growing in the region and across the globe.

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"Congress should be focused on what it can do to help the people who need help in this crisis and on coming up with creative ways to stimulate the economy, " he says.

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The record levels of risk undertaken by financial institutions, home-buyers, and investors, particularly in sub-prime mortgages and other forms of creative financing, made for a collapse of crisis proportions when the bubble burst.

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Meanwhile, Europe's crisis goes on, still in need of creative solutions.

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Dave admits that the current economic crisis has also prompted him to look at creative ways of financing the record company's activities and promoting its music.

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All across America powerful Schumpeterian gales of technological creative destruction, along with acute aftershocks from the 2008 financial crisis, are radically and quite literally altering the physical landscape of this nation.

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He called the global turmoil "far more large-scale and far more dangerous than the 1998 crisis", but said Russians "showed that we are a mature, creative, confident nation with inner vital strength".

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