Remember when we started the conversation and I talked about this, or you actually brought up this house of cards effect.

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"If you went through the level of destruction that I brought about it my own life, you have this yearning to construct something, " he said in 2011.

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Mr. PAT CARNEY (Drummer, The Black Keys): I brought this tape that I'd recorded in my basement, you know, like drew a cover for the tape and, you know, wrote a note.

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So I think that you have a fundamental deadlock in perspectives that were brought to the discussions during the course of this week.

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This was brought out in recent research by economists at the Resolution Foundation (you see I have been doing my homework....) It found that higher unemployment was now having a much greater "chilling effect" on wages than in the past.

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