Oh the weather outside is frightful / and inside, it's also frightful / and since we've no place to go, feel woe, feel woe, feel woe!
Even though that ought to give the Fed some comfort, policymakers felt that economic woes overseas were "an important source of downside risks" to the U.S. outlook, according to minutes from the central bank's December meeting.
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Even without that, it is possible that the financial market meltdown overstates the real woes being felt in the rest of the country.
Di Natale, who was forced to defend the role of his party from both Labor and Coalition rivals, who branded him "arrogant", linked fossil fuel donations to the two major parties to the economic woes now felt in regions like central Queensland.
Meanwhile, it is hardly hyperbole to say that Glencore's woes are being felt across the globe.
Maybe it was that in the construction industry, which relied so heavily on the housing market, dissection of our nation's woes would have felt too intimate.
China's woes are being felt in other economies because it is such a big commodities consumer: the slowdown in the world's biggest energy user is weighing on oil prices.
The executives arrested so far have been charged either with graft, plain mismanagement or, in Mr Tan's case, "irresponsibility causing serious consequences".In this section America's Improved Giant Bunfight The value of value The road from perdition War on terabytes Blood bars and debt bunnies Tiger tamed In the cooler The autopilot solution ReprintsThe banks' woes are widely felt.
When put like that, opera, for all its current woes, has never felt more relevant.
