2008
The crisis year marks the transfer from private excess into public rescue balance sheets, which changed the debt story for the next fifteen years.
- Global financial crisis
- Public rescue balance sheets
- Sharp recession response
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The crisis year marks the transfer from private excess into public rescue balance sheets, which changed the debt story for the next fifteen years.
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