by Laura Conaway

This week I've been struck by three worldviews and one motto.

1). On life after a financial recovery, from the International Monetary Fund:

For the average country, output per capita declines by about 10 percent of its precrisis trend and fails to rebound seven years after the crisis, although there is a large variation in outcomes across crisis episodes.

2). On America's new role in the world, from President Barack Obama:

Some of our actions have yielded progress. Some have laid the groundwork for progress in the future. But make no mistake: this cannot be solely America's endeavor. Those who used to chastise America for acting alone in the world cannot now stand by and wait for America to solve the world's problems alone.

3). On stabilizing the economy, from Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper:

"We cannot hinge future world growth simply on an overextended American consumer. That is not a wise strategy and that is certainly not the strategy of the government of Canada."

After the jump, a watchword for Communist Party of China.

 

As part of celebrating the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Communist Party of China released 50 slogans. Among them:

"Hail the great success of our country's reform and opening-up and socialist modernization!"