The strength of productivity growth will power corporate profit growth in the US during the year ahead.

The ECB's reluctance to cut interest rates aggressively could have negative growth ramifications going forward.

China's massive stimulus is allowing it to avert the worst of the Global Financial Crisis.

US consumers are dragging down global growth.

Governments and central banks are trying to avert the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.

Despite an easing of credit conditions, a significant global economic downturn is a fait accompli.

Central banks have been forced to take unprecedented actions in trying to contain the burgeoning crisis.

Growth is weakening dramatically throughout the industrialized world.

There is no end in sight to sluggish economic performance in the advanced world.

The ECB is looking increasingly hawkish while the Fed is retaining a dovish bias.

The global economy is likely to endure a year and a half of subpar growth.

Commodity prices have become untethered from US growth for the first time in memory.

The Fed is no longer being forced to contain the developing financial crisis on its own.

Bear Stearns has been the epicenter of the slow motion financial crisis during the last eight months.

Tight credit conditions and a subdued consumer are raising the likelihood that the US is moving into a recession.