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...Depression - when Europeans also first mistakenly thought the problem would remain confined to the U.S. One leading German politician, Interior Minister Wolfgang Schauble, even raised the specter of the kind of longer term economic dislocation that led to the rise of Adolf Hitler. "Four months ago," says economist Schmidt, "I might have said that it may not get worse. But we have not seen anything like this before. I cannot say that we have reached the bottom. I am afraid that may not be the case." - With reporting by Catherine Mayer / London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe Struggles for a Response to the Bank Crisis | 10/7/2008 | See Source »

...confidence, not least because Germans hold a higher proportion of their savings in banks than citizens in many industrialized nations - and they still harbor a deep collective memory of the perils of economic uncertainty from the interwar years of the Weimar Republic. "We had to do it," says Reinhard Schmidt, a professor of international banking and finance at Goethe University in Frankfurt. "I have friends. I have neighbors. I have family. You wouldn't believe how many people have been calling me to ask about their deposits. The fears are extremely strong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe Struggles for a Response to the Bank Crisis | 10/7/2008 | See Source »

...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 other Europeans, he says. "It would have destroyed the idea of European integration," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe Struggles for a Response to the Bank Crisis | 10/7/2008 | See Source »

...inability to break through the media's fascination with Obama. At the time, McCain's aides openly vented their frustration, both with the political climate, which favored Democrats, and with the media, which they believed had unjustly soured on McCain. It was an environment that seemed tailor-made for Schmidt, McCain's new day-to-day campaign manager, who had earned his stripes in the hardscrabble world of the Bush-Cheney 2004 war room, fighting and winning the news-cycle battle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Behind McCain's Nosedive | 10/1/2008 | See Source »

...plan Schmidt developed for McCain called for the campaign to go on offense, with sometimes shocking moves that would begin winning weeks of news coverage. Call Obama an unprepared celebrity. Reintroduce McCain as a maverick and a change agent. Hit old Republican themes on taxes and spending. Run away from the record of Republicans in Congress and the White House. Make copious use of outrage and emotion. Rather than a single, unified message, Schmidt planned a multifaceted attack, which would be stitched together under the banner of "Country First," a phrase that both highlighted McCain's war-hero biography...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Behind McCain's Nosedive | 10/1/2008 | See Source »

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