In 1974 economic difficulties in the wake of the 1973 oil crisis and related industrial action saw Parliament recalled in January.
Conflict in Northern Ireland, the fall-out from the oil crisis and continuing industrial conflict between the government and unions were recurring domestic themes.
But the euro crisis has reduced industrial activity (cutting pollution) and European firms were anyway given overly generous carbon quotas under the cap-and-trade scheme.
In the case of Japan the industrial economy facing the greatest crisis they are both worried and, as yet, incapable of the tough decisions needed to deliver reforms that are now long overdue.
Has it recovered its pre-crisis peak of industrial production?
The failures of the largest financial institutions in the US, UK, and Europe as well as the failure of industrial firms during the prolonged crisis have an impact beyond their home countries.
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It wasn't until last month that the Dow Jones industrial average returned to its pre-crisis high.
Despite a worsening economy and the biggest one-day decline in equities since the 2008 financial crisis, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is up 213 points or 1.96% to 11, 022 by 12:44 PM in New York.
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The industrial core is being battered by the Asian crisis: the state's exports contracted by 8.3% last year.
True, Hyundai kept expanding during the crisis, buying Kia Motors and several industrial plants.
The precarious state of the economy and fall in industrial production cannot be attributed solely to the financial crisis in Russia.
So far this year, with stocks surging and the Dow Jones Industrial Average blowing past its pre-financial-crisis high in April, having cash on the sidelines hasn't been a winning move for equity fund managers.
The debt crisis in Europe has led to fewer industrial shipments of steel and, with the economy showing very few signs of recovery in the near future, we do not believe that shipments will pick up materially over the next year.
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As some of the hardest hit areas by the financial crisis rebound strongly, the northeast and the industrial Midwest have been lagging, index chairman David Blitzer noted.
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Some analysts have suggested platinum group metals could be among the metals that outperform if sentiment for industrial commodities were not getting dinged by the European debt crisis.
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Like other base metals, aluminum has tumbled from its highs earlier in the year on worries about the strength of the global economy and thus potential industrial demand, particularly as the European sovereign-debt crisis continues.
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If these devaluations accelerate, the sector could see a wave of consolidation or significant investment from much larger companies like industrial giant General Electric, no stranger itself to the credit crisis.
Agricultural and industrial productivity dropped sharply and the country suffered a major national economic crisis in the late 1990s.
So that here in Wisconsin, there may be some roads that not only were repaired, but also were suddenly linked up to create a new industrial park that would facilitate long-term economic development beyond this immediate crisis.
For example, if one had shifted assets out of the U.S. into a broad array of investible high yield countries with favorable freedom dynamics four years ago (slightly before the global credit crisis), he would have strongly outperformed the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
U.S. retail sales data, industrial output in China and the euro area, the ongoing Spanish banking crisis and possible further monetary policy easing in Japan will all be overshadowed by the Greek elections, said Nomura Securities analysts in a 16 page report on Friday.
Industrial production in the EU remains more than 10 per cent below its pre-crisis peak from 2008, while manufacturing companies have shed 3.4m of the 35.4m workers they had at the same time.
If there is one area of the system by which the USSR has been governed which remains essentially unchanged by glasnost, perestroika, the putative end of the Cold War, democratic elections, interest in free market reforms or economic crisis in the Soviet Union, it is Moscow center's defense industrial establishment.
The Asian financial crisis of 1997-98 resulted in a spike in lay-offs among industrial workers, and governments found it impossible to leave the jobless masses to their fate.
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The Great Depression was a worldwide economic crisis that in the United States was marked by widespread unemployment, near halts in industrial production and construction, and an 89 percent decline in stock prices.
Belmont Holdings, a closely held company that owns industrial minerals assets, is a useful client for its lawyers because it posted large losses amid the financial crisis stemming from investments in securities issued by big banks.
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Macroeconomic concerns, primarily related to the European debt crisis and continued economic weakness in the U.S., have resulted in a decline in industrial demand for steel as companies are bracing for slower than estimated sales going forward.
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