The purpose of it was to keep people from falling into the abyss, keep us from sliding into a literal depression, and begin to build a ladder to climb out of that hole.

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The government and Central Bank needed to take decisive action to prevent the world economy from falling into a multi-decade abyss.

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Because the two choices right now seem to be either the euro zone manages to rescue itself, increasingly questionable, or the world is once again in danger of falling into an economic and financial abyss.

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