Even with several quarters of growth, we are still way below where we were before the crisis and would have been without the crisis.
As a result, the USA has been harder hit than Brazil, China and India, which has enabled these countries to catch up faster than they would have without the crisis.
It must make clear that the timing of bigger buffers can be staggered and that their cost must be compared with the benefit of fewer meltdowns (the Bank of England reckons global GDP in 2009 would have been 6.5% higher without the crisis).
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Without the debt crisis deadline looming over the market, stocks would be much higher.
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Without the financial crisis, we might have expected Britain's economy to be 10-15% larger now than it was five years ago.
Fortunately, we can always count on Newt Gingrich to use a crisis to slam the president without actually bothering to comment on the crisis.
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If growth starts to pick up, central bankers can congratulate themselves on having steered their economies through the crisis without triggering a repeat of the Great Depression.
Much money could be saved through better management, which would be warranted with or without the ongoing budget crisis.
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But she said she could not speak out on issues like tolerance without addressing the current crisis in Kosovo.
And I was stunned that he could talk about the housing meltdown and mortgage crisis without mentioning the Federal Reserve, Fannie Mae, or Freddie Mac.
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Ford, the only Detroit automaker to get through the financial crisis without a bailout, reported its August sales, which grew 11%, as the company begins a partnership with car-sharing company ZipCar and braces itself for a labor struggle with the United Auto Workers (UAW).
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America, whose banks suffered huge losses in the crisis without threatening the solvency of the government, is taking a more moderate approach.
The role is and was to prevent widespread panic withdrawal from banks, something it accomplished quietly and without fanfare during the financial crisis of 2008.
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The leading executive of a public-private housing finance institution who brags to me that she got out just in time without being stained by the crisis, her extraordinary small fortune intact.
And maybe it is just me today, but the thought that Japan can get through the crisis without further serious damage, let alone coming out of it in substantially better condition, seems particularly Panglossian and unrealistic.
Frazer said that during her trip, she consulted with the leaders of Zimbabwe's neighbors who are stuck between their concerns about Mugabe's grip on power and their support of the power-sharing agreement, which they still think is the best way to deal with the crisis without creating a backlash.
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The standoff with the Soviet Union in October 1962, a fight that came to be known as the Cuban Missile Crisis, ended without war, which gave the market license to rise again.
Many fear that the massive stimulus efforts are merely whipping up an inflation crisis down the road without doing anything to get the U.S. economy out of its current malaise, which includes tepid growth and unemployment above 8%.
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For the first time Brazil is negotiating without the compulsion of a financial crisis.
Mr. Romney's position that the companies could have been restructured during the financial crisis without federal help "is contrived, " Mr. Gusick said.
Of course, without the heated atmosphere of a crisis, it would be much harder to persuade people to trust some of their Social Security money to the private investment markets.
General Motors and Ford Motor shares tend to trade in tandem, even though we all know GM is the basket case that needed a federal bailout, while Ford sailed through the economic crisis without any taxpayer assistance.
Ms. Brune's client, Matthew Tannin, and his Bear colleague Ralph Cioffi were acquitted of securities fraud in the only major financial-crisis prosecution in 2009, without taking the stand.
However, as the financial crisis hit home the decline in weeks without a job only dipped to 17, before exploding to 35 weeks seen in 2010.
The OBR's forecast assumes that the euro crisis can be resolved without too much fuss, which seems increasingly unlikely and the uncertainty is pushing the euro zone towards recession fast.
But we also know that we can't create as many jobs as we want, or rebuild our economy the way we hope, without addressing the problem at the heart of this economic crisis -- and that's our housing crisis.
The housing market will be plunged into "crisis"' without government action to address the "chronic under-supply of homes", a body representing housing associations in England has warned.
One is that the world economy returns roughly to its pre-crisis rate of growth, without regaining the ground lost.
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