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From that fateful day, the advanced capitalist world has experienced its longest period of economic stagnation since the decade that began with the 1929 Wall Street crash and ended with the outbreak of World War II ten years later.
Yet the longest interruption in bond financing brought about by these shocks – which took place during the second half of 2015 – lasted just six months.
Since early 2010, US employment growth has been running well above the natural rate of labor-force growth, with the economy adding more than 15 million private-sector jobs in the longest continuous series of monthly employment increases on record.
The irony is that it was the US that built some of the longest lasting alliances and institutions the modern world has seen, and that were central to American power for over half a century.
In fact, the post-war era has been the longest sustained period of trade liberalization in history – a particularly impressive feat, given that the world has just suffered the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.
Asia’s Hierarchies of HumiliationPHILADELPHIA – Indian and Chinese troops have been locked in a standoff in Doka La – where the borders of Bhutan, China and India meet – for almost a month now, the longest such impasse between the two armies since 1962.
Colombia’s Modest PeaceBOMBOLO, ANTIOQUIA, COLOMBIA – While Syria’s civil war and political crises in Thailand and Ukraine continue to dominate the headlines, Colombia’s government, led by President Juan Manuel Santos, and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) may be about to end the longest and most brutal conflict in Latin America’s history.
After waging the longest war in its history, at a cost of tens of thousands of lives and nearly a trillion dollars, the US is combat-weary and financially strapped.
Those seven years without strong hurricanes is the longest such span in more than a century.
In the US, recession started in December 2007, and will last at least until December 2009 – the longest and deepest US recession since World War II, with the cumulative fall in GDP possibly exceeding 5%.
In fact, it was the longest period of continuous decline in the crime rate ever recorded, and all legal institutions were strengthened.
Still, given a severe financial crisis, declining home prices, and a credit crunch, the US is facing its longest and deepest recession in decades, dashing any hope of a soft landing for the rest of the world.
In fact, it is partly because of that aid that Afghanistan is a failing state, leaving the US mired in the longest war in its history.
In swimming, the longest race for men is 1,500 meters, while for women it is 800 meters.
All of this is happening in the country with the world’s largest oil reserves, just two years after the end of the longest oil-price boom in history.
Fahd, the eldest Sudeiri son, ruled for 23 years, the longest reign for a Saudi king.
One of the Kremlin’s latest geostrategic targets is Afghanistan, where the United States remains embroiled in the longest war in its history.
In the United States, where the boom has lasted the longest, many observers have no doubt that the market is in a bubble.
The EU has contributed to the longest period of peace in European history.
Should we write off what more than two generations of Europeans have created – a massive investment in institution-building that has led to the longest period of peace and prosperity in the history of the continent?
The organization that emerged, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, has undergirded the longest period of sustained peace and prosperity in the West’s modern history.
In the past few years, we’ve been in the deepest and longest minimum of a Schwabe cycle since satellite measurements began.
The CPA ended Africa’s longest civil war, which had left behind over two million dead.
The US remains stuck in the longest war in its history, as a resurgent Taliban carries out increasingly daring attacks in Afghanistan with the aid of their command-and-control structure in – you guessed it – Pakistan.
“In strategy,” he argued, “the longest way round is often the shortest way there.”
Yet there can be no disagreement that Latin Americans have been the longest and best practitioners of economic populism.
As a result, real interest rates are stuck at unprecedentedly high levels for the longest duration in the history of Western capitalism.
Due to congestion, New Yorkers face the longest commutes in the US, and their children have the highest rate of asthma hospitalization.
And soon thereafter, NATO led the United Nations-mandated International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan – the longest mission in the Alliance’s history.
The longest election campaign in UK history has been strikingly short of focus.
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