Germany and Canada kept to a less extreme interest rate path, and their industrial production had climbed back to prerecession levels by the middle of 2011.

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He has discussed, as you know, and he talked about at Camp David, he has discussed with European leaders the efforts that we have taken here in Washington to restart our economy, to reverse the extreme economic decline that was taking place here in 2008 and 2009, and to put the economy on a path towards economic growth and job creation.

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