Housing went from making up more than 6% of GDP before the crisis to 2.2% currently.
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Also, as evidenced by the sharp drop in the savings rate to a post-crisis low of 2.4%, Americans may respond to the decline in disposable income by spending less.
The national hotline has answered more than 2 million crisis calls, directing victims to life-saving assistance.
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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But despite the Crisis, only 8.2% of all the companies surveyed were actively searching for new foreign partners.
The United States' unemployment rate is higher, at 9.1%, but Iceland's unemployment rate is still up compared to pre-crisis levels, which hovered around 2% to 4 % in 2006 and 2007.
Amid the credit crisis it seemed like the days of 2 and 20 were coming to a close, a relic of an excessive era.
Since South Korea was hit by the Crisis in December last year, more than 2 million have lost their jobs.
In New York the industry employs 20, 000 fewer people than it did before the crisis, and it is likely to lose 2, 600 more jobs this year.
It proved a good day for Manchester as United's rivals City maintained their push for a Champions League place with a comfortable 2-0 home win over crisis-club Portsmouth.
Cardinals held their final closed-door debate Monday over whether the church needs more of a manager to clean up the Vatican's bureaucratic mess or a pastor to inspire the 1.2 billion faithful in times of crisis.
Delayed and insufficient responses by eurozone leaders have turned the crisis of Greece, which represents less than 2.5% of eurozone GDP, into a market storm that could engulf not only Spain and the rest of the periphery, but the world financial system.
For one thing, the country accounted for just about 2% of global production before the crisis erupted there on February 15.
Just to put the current move in to perspective, yields climaxed in the prior month to reach 2.04% as the financial crisis reached its crescendo.
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Against the backdrop of a continuing international financial crisis, commerce in Venezuela grew by 9.2% and communications by 7.2%, manufacturing grew by 2.1% and the oil sector grew by 1.4% -- making Venezuela one of the fastest growing economies in Latin America.
When the backwash from the Asian crisis sent Vietnam's GDP plunging from 8.2% in 1997 to 5.8% in 1998, these remittances became a vital source of stability.
But it is not clear whether the move will help to address the country's worsening energy crisis, since it faces a daily shortfall of around 2, 000 megawatts of electricity - or about one-third of its total requirement.
The average growth rate over the past 6 months, when the crisis has been coming to head, has been 0.2% per quarter in the eurozone - versus 0.3% in the UK. The average for Germany has been 0.4%.
That is number 2, 3 and 4 in the Eurozone all facing crisis.
This trend reached a crescendo during the crisis of 2008, when 10-year Treasury yields plunged to 2% and 90-day T-bills paid negative yields.
This month's clashes between Hezbollah and the Sunni-led government happened when a labor protest May 2 escalated into a flashpoint over Lebanon's political crisis.
The official growth prediction for 2001 has been scaled back to 2% due to the global economic downturn and the crisis caused by the 11 September attacks.
The Asian crisis was a bitter, very recent memory, and choice No. 2 was big, safe and Dutch--Phillips.
Back in April Senator Levin blasted Wall Street in a 635-page report stemming from a 2-year bipartisan investigation on the key causes of the crisis.
Global oil demand fell by 2 million barrels a day in the depths of the financial crisis, he said, while today, demand in the industrialized world is down only slightly and emerging markets are continuing to grow.
As it is, unemployment has crept up to 9.2%, a higher level than at any point during the economic crisis (see chart).
The flights will take Egyptians stranded by the crisis in Libya back to their own country, Mr Cameron said at PMQs on 2 March 2011.
The record low for the eurozone unemployment rate was 7.2%, which was recorded in February 2008, before the financial crisis that first gripped the banking sector spread to the real economy.
This year's growth forecast is 1.5-2%, only marginally down on previous estimates despite the euro-zone crisis.
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