“We should expect below par economic performance and growth,” said Carmen Reinhart from University of Maryland, co-author with Kenneth Rogoff of This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly. “In the near term, the problem is a highly leveraged private sector that still has to unwind.”

Source: CNBC, April 1, 2010.

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