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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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