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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...changing hands at distressed levels. If the bets on these nations being able to shoulder that own national financial obligations improve, it is a sign that global credit is becoming available, at least at the sovereign level, and that the IMF has been able to get commitments from the "richer" nations to provide credit to those that are in trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Six Signs the Recession Is Ending | 3/3/2009 | See Source »

...major split is over how much Europe's richer western countries should do to help their poorer eastern neighbors. Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany has appealed for $230 billion in aid for eastern member states who have been hardest hit by the economic crisis, plus streamlined access to the Eurozone, or the 16 countries who use Europe's common currency. Without help, he says, there is likely to be a new economic "Iron Curtain" across Europe. (See pictures of the changes in Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: As the Crisis Bites, Splits Open Up in Europe | 3/2/2009 | See Source »

...Europeans, but only on a country-by-country basis, as well as repeated mantras about avoiding protectionism. But if the show of unity was unconvincing, the issues are very real. Crashing exchange rates, soaring debts and failing banks: eastern European economies have fallen far faster and harder than their richer, Western neighbors. Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek - whose country currently holds the E.U.'s presidency - says the developing recession is "the greatest crisis in the history of European integration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: As the Crisis Bites, Splits Open Up in Europe | 3/2/2009 | See Source »

...Beijing is also trying to prop up the healthiest companies by encouraging car sales in China's rural provinces, where there are hundreds of millions who have yet to adopt the freer spending patterns of consumers in richer coastal cities. Beginning in March the government will offer $730 million in subsidies to help rural residents replace their outdated three-wheeled vehicles, which are ubiquitous in farming communities, with small trucks or minivans with engine capacities of up to 1.3 liters. Qualified individuals will be entitled to a maximum of $725 under the program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Auto Bailout Takes a Different Route | 3/1/2009 | See Source »

...mascot. We can never have a mascot because our teams are idiotically named after a color. We’re at a serious deficit at these games already. So even though I’m a whining champ, even though there are ants infesting my room in a school richer than most countries, even though Eliot dinner runs out around 6:15, even though I think the Core Office loves it when I hate my classes, I am going to get over myself and relive my pre-frosh excitement. Go Harvard, damn...

Author: By Jessica L. Fleischer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pathetically Peppy? | 2/24/2009 | See Source »

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