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Some thoughts on the lasting damage from the crisis

The euro-zone is not suffering from excessive leverage among banks and households, or slow and counter-productive responses from policymakers, which held back its recovery from the last two crises. But the current downturn still throws up some of the same problems, as well as some new ones, which suggest that the economy will not return to its previous trend for the foreseeable future.

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