The 2007-09 recession was induced by a financial crisis and some, most notably economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff (authors of "This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly"), argue that financial crises pose more difficult recovery problems than do policy-induced recessions.

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This will make recovery more difficult and extend the timeframe for a full economic recovery.

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No one is happy with the size of the deficits, but cutting back at this point will put more out of work and make any recovery more difficult.

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Heightened tensions in currency and capital markets could result in a more protracted and difficult global recovery.

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Not only is their justification questionable, but it will only serve to make economic recovery more difficult.

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That unrelenting fear made my recovery infinitely more difficult that it needed to be, as I experienced first-hand the debilitating physical and mental repercussions of stress and anxiety.

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This is going to make a recovery in Japan even more difficult.

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This year it is even more difficult, as the hoped-for economic recovery failed to materialize.

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As I regained my health, I had a lot of time to think about what we always hear about surgery but very rarely actually experience: The recovery from any medical procedure is more difficult than the operation itself.

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And as Americans all across the country work hard to keep our economic recovery going, arbitrary cuts to services and investments that businesses and workers depend on makes that far more difficult.

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