Unlike the rest of Europe, where governments collapsed under the euro crisis's burden, the French didn't sanction Sarkozy for his management of the financial crisis, which in fact many consider good.
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Among the crisis's first fatalities was a British citizen who was killed Wednesday while traveling in the convoy to the airfield, Mr. Cameron said.
As last year's financial crisis cratered the U.S. and Chinese stock markets, ChinaCache put its public offering plans on hold.
With investors worried about Europe's debt crisis and the U.S. economy, few expect the IPO market in the U.S. to rebound anytime soon.
Beyond the budget, Lew is expected to hew closely to the positions Geithner struck on Europe's debt crisis, the U.S. relationship with China and the administration's defense of the Dodd-Frank financial overhaul law that the banking industry has fought to weaken.
The euro zone's crisis is now viewed as the world economy's No. 1 problem, and analysts have criticized Germany's emphasis on austerity as being responsible for making it worse.
For advice, it sought out former regulators from the Resolution Trust Corporation, charged in the 1980s with cleaning up America's savings-and-loan (thrift) crisis, and from Securitas, which handled Sweden's banking crisis in the early 1990s.
Having fled these currencies in late 2011 as the euro zone's crisis deepened, investors returned to emerging markets and other riskier assets at the beginning of this year, buoyed by encouraging economic data out of the U.S. and signs the euro-zone debt crisis is calming down.
And as NPR's Daniel Zwerdling reports, one vet told the taskforce there's a mental health crisis at Colorado's Fort Carson.
The U.S. flu vaccine crisis and Merck's recall of its anti-inflammatory drug Vioxx underscore the need for major health care reforms.
Sudan's humanitarian crisis may be the world's worst but is neither well-known nor widely understood, partly because the country is so inaccessible but mostly because it is so poor.
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And if we can ride out another ten years through a diplomatic approach to solving Iran's nuclear crisis, then that country's demography also points to an entirely new beginning just over the horizon.
Referring to the EU's crisis response, he said that "as this plays out it's changing the European Union... so I believe there are opportunities for others, like Britain, to make changes themselves".
Today's crisis is less about fiscal profligacy than about investors' fears for the euro's sustainability and their flight from peripheral assets.
Until now, South Korea's crisis has been widely seen as a corporate problem, mainly involving the country's giant conglomerates, the chaebol, and the banks that have lent to them.
But not for the first time in Europe's crisis it may be pressure from the markets that decides who will lead the world's eighth largest economy.
British special forces were sent to the Sokoto area the day before the rescue attempt and the go-ahead was given by Cobra, the government's crisis committee, after a review of the intelligence led to fears for the men's safety.
He will be viewed as Jim Irsay's midlife crisis QB, even if that's unfair.
The report says the new figures "reveal that those bearing the brunt of Europe's economic crisis include some of the world's poorest people".
He said they were also discussing co-operation in the banking and energy sectors, adding that any deal to solve the island's debt crisis should also be in Russia's interests.
Listen to what Ben Bernanke said before the House Financial Services Committee regarding whether the U.S. faces a debt crisis similar to Greece s: It s not something that is 10 years away.
It's no surprise that the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission's investigation found plenty of blame to go around.
Shipments to the EU have now fallen for 11 straight months, as the region's debt crisis has hurt growth in the bloc's major economies.
NATO's ranks, approval for air raids may be held up both by Italy's political crisis and by the new German government's need to consult the Bundestag.
Even the two feature-length documentary films by James Blue take as their subjects Houston's housing crisis in the 1970s rather than Buffalo's own broken downtown and ethnic strife.
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But faced with growing discontent over Greece's handling of the crisis, the country's political leaders have been reluctant to sign off on the overhaul, which is seen as capable of sparking social upheaval.
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But we also know that we can't create as many jobs as we want, or rebuild our economy the way we hope, without addressing the problem at the heart of this economic crisis -- and that's our housing crisis.
The crisis has turned Kenya from one of Africa's most stable and prosperous nations into the continent's latest crisis.
Sir Richard Eyre's long-awaited report on the crisis in London's opera and ballet, released on June 30th, confirmed the financial diagnosis and begged the government for more money.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average suffered its third consecutive triple-digit point decline, and Treasury yields fell to a record low as investors digested evidence that Europe's mounting crisis is hitting the bottom lines of U.S. corporations.
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