Word: continentally
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The credit crisis has had a chilling effect on economies around the world, and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) expects global growth to drop off sharply for the rest of this year and next as a result. The situation is particularly critical in Europe, where national economies were slowing markedly...
I had thought getting a mani-pedi would make me feel awkward and over-privileged. But it wasn’t like that at all. I felt expansive, like a cruise ship or a continent. I was supporting many industries. Filing my nails produced a fine white powder, like the...
There hasn't been any talk of any of that in all the weekend excitement in Europe. And of course it's bad form to ask whether governments across the continent have learned any lessons from their appalling mismanagement of banks in the past. Far easier just to bash those...
If a shock is what is needed to restructure the banking rules in Europe, one may be underway. Economists are warning that the Continent is facing its biggest crisis since the Depression - when Europeans also first mistakenly thought the problem would remain confined to the U.S. One leading German politician...
Germany's refusal to sign on to a Continent-wide bailout plan was no less necessary, says Schmidt. Such a plan would have triggered a backlash in Germany against the E.U., egged on by the ready arguments of the anti-Europe German press that Germans were paying to bail out...