crisis
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While the $250 million investment won’t solve the housing affordability crisis alone, industry veterans say it will help spur additional investments and lead to more housing being built.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
"He's a crisis manager. He managed the financial crisis, he managed Brexit, and now he's got a super crisis for Canada."
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
So after the lettuce war room came the other half of crisis management: talking to people.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
Three shocks—the Sept. 11 attacks, the 2008 financial crisis and the pandemic—disrupted economic momentum and prompted major government spending.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
Nor can you tell him that you asked him to lunch because you thought you could trace the biggest financial crisis in the history of the world back to a decision he had made.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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He warned of the risk of food crises in African and Asian countries, saying Moscow was also unable to export its grain through the Black Sea.
From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026
In those famous cases that led to crises, the Fed was flipping the narrative; in this case, it is simply trying to find a level of rates that would put some downward pressure on inflation.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026
Some experts argue that repeated crises have exposed flaws not only in how exams are conducted, but also in how they are designed.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
“The emergency releases of the last five years, the two energy crises, have brought us not to tank bottom, but quite low,” Majkut said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Although there are many doubters and naysayers, today there is widespread agreement among scientists that the environmental crises threatening the planet are climate change, stratospheric ozone depletion, and degraded water quality.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
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Michelle Obama's Speech at the 2016 DNC
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