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The economies for many countries have been doing poorly since the turn of the century, and it was pretty bad in early 2008 as well.


Not true, Global growth has been at 5% (which is decent) for more than a decade. There may be some countries that had problem (Germany) but others made up for it in a big fashion (Spain, Ireland, Easter countries, China India, Brazil, USA ...)