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  • What's truly amazing about the sub-par growth rate of the last 11 years (which was well below trend growth of 3%) is that it encompassed two of the biggest manias in the history of the United States-the internet equity bubble of the late 90's and real estate bubble in the middle of this decade.

    Michael Pento: Obama the Grand Illusionist 2009

  • States-the country whose currency has been most unstable against the Rand-rated macroeconomic instability as a serious obstacle.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

  • If we look at financial-sector indicators, the most important leading indicator of the U.S. economy (and this has been confirmed by a great deal of academic research) seems to be the shape of the yield curve in the United States-the gap between short-term interest rates and long-term interest rates.

    Annual Financial Forum 2001

  • Now of course I am extremely happy that many of these emigrants to Canada retain happy recollections of the land of their origin, and I enjoy meeting-both here and in the United States-the various Ulster-Irish or Scotch-Irish societies which exist to strengthen these ties.

    Ulster's Place In Britain Today/The Economic Future of Great Britain 1967

  • Illiteracy in these countries as compared to the United States-the figures are as follows:

    Challenge from the Americas 1961

  • Although the position of the States is relatively strong - it is, for example, strange to find domestic prices controlled by the States-the actual responsibilities of the Commonwealth Government have tended to increase with the expanding needs of national defence, the general acceptance of a full employment policy, and the demand for wider and more uniform social services.

    Australia Revisited 1956

  • Where the American in general is responsive to every new development afoot in the United States-the Canadian in general remains aloof, reserved, disinterested in significant happenings within his country.

    That Inferiority Complex 1949

  • Here's to the union of the British Empire and the United States-the greatest hope of our future civilization, the greatest promise of happiness to humanity.

    Fraternal Greetings from Uncle Sam 1921

  • States of America, but as the President of the United States-the man who wielded the power, and embodied in his person the majesty and the authority of a great and free people.

    The Nation's Mourning. A Sermon Preached Before the Congregational Church and Society in Green's Farms, Conn., on the Day of the National Fast, Occasioned by the Death of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, June 1st, 1865. Rev. B. J. Relyea 1865

  • He reminds us that, time and again, left-wing movements have skillfully revealed dark flaws in American life, and, in doing so, have altered and refined what he calls the larger "moral culture" in the United States-the common sense appreciation of right and wrong.

    Slate Magazine Paul Berman 2011

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