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INDEX
Steinmeier, Frank-Walter, xvi and length of working life, 55
Stern Business School, NYU, 168 projected increase in, 105
Stock price performance of top Uniqlo, 104, 127–128, 146–148
performers in recessions, xvii United Kingdom (U.K.):
Strategic divestments, 136–138 commercial lending in, 92
Strategic pricing, 107–108 corporate governance in, 165–166
“Stress test,” 14–16 credit market losses in, 13
Subprime mortgage crisis, 5–9 credit supply in, 19
Success factors, xviii, 169 foreign nationals in, 48
Successes, measuring and celebrating, and international lending, 47
156, 169 manufacturing sector in, 40, 41
Suppliers, renegotiating with, 93 trade deficit of, 25
Survey information, xvii–xviii, United States:
175–178 1980s to 2005 savings rates in, 8
Sweden, 13 “cash for clunkers” program in, 106
Swope, Gerard, 123, 149 commercial lending in, 92
Systemic risk, 11 Congressional Budget Office, 29,
39
TALF (Term Asset-Backed Securities consumer debt in, 20–24
Loan Facility), 17 consumer price index in, 105
Takeda, 98–100, 137–138 consumer spending in China vs.,
Takeda, Kunio, 99, 137 xiii–xiv
Tariffs, 44, 83 corporate profits in, 58
Tax increases, 39 credit market losses in, 12–13
Technology sector, 129, 159 credit supply in, 19
during Lost Decade in Japan, demand for fresh equity in banks
100–101 in, 13
Tennessee Valley Authority, 123 executives’ expectations of economic
Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan growth in, 33
Facility (TALF), 17 financial crises in, xii
Thatcher, Margaret, 37 green technology in, 42, 43
Toledo, Ohio, 42 house prices in, 6–9
Trade (see Global trade flows) manufacturing sector in, 40
Treasury bonds, 10, 39 nationalization of banks in, 58
Twain, Mark, 87 projected budget deficits in, 39
protectionism in, 44–45, 49
U-Haul, 108 regulatory proposals in, 51–52
U.K. (see United Kingdom) repatriation of jobs to, 40
Unbundling, as pricing strategy, 107 savings rate in, 8, 21, 52
Unemployment, 20 status of banks in, 17–19
and consumer spending, 54 “stress test” for crisis in, 14–16
during Great Depression, 86 trade deficit of, 11, 25
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