No one raised questions about the current level of Microsoft's own competitiveness--or its bruising battle with Internet king Google.

FORBES: Magazine Article

No one raised questions about the current level of Microsoft's own competitiveness--or its bruising battle with Internet king Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ).

FORBES: Gates Warns Congress

Large turnarounds in current account balances generally require a shift in competitiveness that re-allocates domestic and foreign spending towards locally-produced goods.

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Wage competitiveness was returning, as was a current account surplus.

BBC: Eurozone crisis: From deutschmark to lira?

Inflation is not wholly defeated, the current-account deficit is large and Turkey's competitiveness in manufacturing is a matter for concern.

ECONOMIST: Anchors aweigh

The current-account deficit is more worrying because it suggests that competitiveness is steadily eroding.

ECONOMIST: The economy has had a big boost from much sounder management

Indeed, like Argentina, Italy faces a growing competitiveness loss given an increasingly overvalued currency and the risk of falling exports and growing current account deficit.

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Ms. Merkel said the euro zone's current crisis can't be solved overnight, because it is the product of years of diverging competitiveness.

WSJ: Merkel, in Speech at Davos,

Like all of them it lost competitiveness in the good times, and like Portugal and Greece it ran persistent and large current-account deficits.

ECONOMIST: Portugal seeks help