When confronted with a debt crisis in the eurozone, European leaders repeatedly kicked the can down the road. The result was an unnecessarily deep and protracted recession.

The disease is a protracted balance sheet recession that has turned a generation of America s consumers into zombies the economic walking dead. Think Japan, and its corporate zombies of the 1990 s.

Protracted situations

MAYNOOTH, IRELAND For months, the European Union has been battered by economic storms that now seriously threaten a protracted Europe wide recession. But, although banking and finance have taken center stage, the EU s constitutional problem refuses to go away.

It's like a recession. So, there's a recession.

Imagining Recession

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BERKELEY The recent G 20 meeting of finance ministers in Saint Petersburg confirmed that the debate between growth and austerity is over at least for now. With protracted recession in Europe and slowdowns in emerging markets, concern about budget deficits has given way to apprehension about growth.

Now, the recession.

America s Political Recession

So 2009 will be a painful year of global recession and further financial stresses, losses, and bankruptcies. Only aggressive, coordinated, and effective policy actions by advanced and emerging market countries can ensure that the global economy recovers in 2010, rather than entering a more protracted period of economic stagnation.

Many protracted situations remain, with little prospect of early solutions.

Second, job losses will lead to a more protracted and severe housing recession, as joblessness and falling income are key factors in determining delinquencies on mortgages and foreclosure. By the end of this year about 8.4 million US individuals with mortgages will be unemployed and unable to service their mortgages.

The tragedy of that protracted stagnation isn't sufficiently recognized, I think.

Avoiding a New American Recession

They have also accumulated large protracted arrears with the international financial institutions.

(iv) Studying the Dead Sea recession

Future efforts will focus on situation specific approaches, notably for protracted refugee situations.

The Perfect Storm of a Global Recession

Those protracted conflict situations are terrible problems for the regions in which they linger.

As I observed in my last report, however, the protracted stalemate is inherently destabilizing.

The resulting recession might fuel further pessimism and cutbacks in spending, deepening the downturn. A US in recession would no longer serve as the world s importer of last resort, which might send the rest of the world into recession as well.

New Zealand was not prepared to continue the protracted and inconclusive process for another decade.

Protracted check ins and check outs reduce the effective stay of UNMOs in the field.

Today, 20 months into the US recession a recession that became global in the summer of 2008 with a massive re coupling the V shaped decoupling view is out the window. This is the worst US and global recession in 60 years.

China should continue along this path, pursuing the kind of monetary policy approach aimed at securing the right combination of prices and employment that prevails in free market economies. Continued currency depreciation would provide a much needed boost to the slowing economy, just as depreciation of the yen through Abenomics has helped to lift Japan out of a protracted recession.

Protracted civil conflicts have provoked some of the largest occurrences of forced displacement in recent times.

In 2004, some two thirds of the global refugee population remained in limbo in protracted situations.

Protracted refugee situations, which had lasted for more than five years, were a different type of obstacle.

People without income or security fall prey to crime and violence, and often get trapped in protracted conflict.

The protracted nature of the conflict and lack of active hostilities meant that international attention had also faded.

Resettlement was another important solution for refugees, particularly for the many who lived in limbo in protracted situations.

The adoption of section XI of General Assembly resolution 59 276 had been the result of protracted negotiations.

Although the number of conflicts has decreased during the last 10 years, today's conflicts tend to be protracted.

Protracted displacement with little hope of solutions in sight remains the situation of millions of displaced persons worldwide.

Many protracted situations remain, with little prospect of early solutions. The situation in Darfur remains of gravest concern.

These protracted delays are dangerous and have contributed to a deep uncertainty that continues to affect Côte d'Ivoire.

And four, a global recession that has fundamentally shocked consumer behaviors.

Well, organized crime has already adapted very well to the recession.

The unemployment rate went up to 5 because of the recession.

However, there have been protracted and dangerous delays in the implementation of other key provisions of the Pretoria Agreement.

Moreover, the protracted negotiations on the draft decision had delayed the adoption of a number of important draft resolutions.

We'll see the same thing in the economic recession we're having now.

In the crisis, in the recession, what do people want to do?