Coincidentally, our NASDAQ Index from its bubble high in 2000 dropped 80 percent before recovery, now standing down 50 percent from its peak.

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Their unemployment rate hit a 25-year high, just under 15 percent, in the midst of the recovery.

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Ireland shows no recovery from its 2009 low, its profile like Greece, off 80 percent from the 2007 high.

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