They have huge debts, which they amortize by rezoning and selling land.

Greece s crisis was spectacularly outsize.

And maybe even a giant girl in a hoodie will connect with what you've shared.

Ireland faces huge economic problems as a result of a commercial real estate boom driven by banks that are relatively small by global standards.

There have always been huge moral questions about capitalism, which could be put to one side because capitalism was so successful at generating wealth.

The challenges facing President Elect Dilma Rousseff are huge, but so are her advantages.

Which view is right has big implications for policy.

All of the great Disney works were works that took works that were in the public domain and remixed them, or waited until they entered the public domain to remix them, to celebrate this add on remix creativity.

A full scale financial crisis is triggered by a sharp fall in the prices of a large set of assets that banks and other financial institutions own, or that make up their borrowers financial reserves.

The term deep six comes to mind If it's too big or too toxic for a landfill, deep six it!

In fact, it was largely a result of massive fiscal stimulus and credit expansion.

Foreign debt kept on growing even though developing countries had allocated enormous resources for its payment.

It took a long time for people to notice that women s eggs were required in large quantities for stem cell technologies a phenomenon I call the lady vanishes.

By contrast, the Fed s purchases of long term bonds during this period has been unprecedentedly large.

Housing prices peaked as lending slowed, and prices then started to decline. The housing bubble was bursting by last fall, and banks with large mortgage holdings started reporting huge losses, sometimes big enough to destroy the bank itself, as in the case of Bear Stearns.

There have been huge leaps. There will be a million fold improvement in what you can get for the same price in computing by 2030.

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Cities have a lot of black asphalt and dark, heat absorbing structures.

However, due to huge election costs, mayoral and municipal elections have never been held.

The end of communist autocracies in the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, and even Czechoslovakia brought about a dramatic wave of state creation.

But that view is probably wrong. As Russia suggests, without popular support, wealth is protected only by increasingly coercive measures.

If the main problem had been confined to excess leverage and risk taking within the financial sector, the economic shock would have been large, but the recovery quicker.

Those dogs are big.

The burdens imposed on individuals, communities and countries are enormous, and the challenges at the national and international levels are formidable.

Instead, up to now at least, the government has mostly been providing (high interest) loans rather than engaging in massive equity buyouts.

Americans borrowed and shopped until they were blue in the face, thinking that an ever rising housing price market would wash away all financial sins. The rest of the world poured money into the US, making it seem as if life was one big free lunch.

In the following years Pescara was repeatedly attacked by the Venetians, and later, as part of the Spanish Kingdom of Naples, it was turned into a massive fortress.

The clincher came when large deposits of natural gas were found in Burma, which, it was clear, would not be available to an India deemed hostile to the junta.

The banking system is probably already past saving many institutions simply aren t banks anymore, but vast experiments that didn t work out as predicted.

When there is no big bubble, there is no need to worry about a big crisis.

Some those with large trade deficits before the crisis hit, those with large national debts that must be rolled over, and those with close trade links to the US are likely to suffer more than others.

In fact, Mubarak s Libya policy was driven largely by economic and security concerns, and rarely took US interests into consideration. More than one million Egyptians worked in Libya, which was also a large export market. And Qaddafi was eager to help Mubarak subdue Islamist threats to the Egyptian regime. Unlike neighboring Sudan, which harbored Egyptian radicals, like al Qaeda leader Ayman al Zawahiri, who were bent on destabilizing the country, Libya turned them over to Mubarak.

Countries running surpluses must adopt expansionary policies and appreciate their currencies.

Australia put real money on the table for increased food production, along the lines that Spain is proposing.

Of course, there is considerable debate about what precisely makes for a healthy diet.

Farms are generally the only places where large enough areas are available to construct large wind generators and large solar power voltaic cells and cultivate large areas of suitable biomass for energy.

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Huge building were erected in their place.

It is a mammoth task.

We are facing a violent crisis.

Indeed, the differences between the current situation and other postwar US recoveries are so large that the term recovery in today s context is dubious.

Lhasa, a sleepy, rather grubby backwater only 30 years ago, is now a city of huge public squares, shopping centers, and high rise buildings, connected to the rest of China with a high speed railway line.

Communism was obviously an instrument of Soviet domination over conquered societies, but it was also a modus vivendi for large parts of these nations under the conditions in which they were obliged to live.

Italy s armada of Guardia di Finanza boats would hardly forestall a massive exodus of wealth if Italians see a sizable wealth tax coming.

Until recently, Russia has pursued an admirably conservative macroeconomic policy, running up huge budget and current account surpluses.