Recovery has been aided by ultra-low interest rates and sky-high levels of borrowing.
Countries can postpone the inevitable by jacking up interest rates to sky-high levels - over 30 percent in Brazil's case - to attract new loans.
If they didn't want a loan that would reset to a sky-high level, why did they sign the documents?
Naturally, suspicions were raised to sky-high levels.
Jobless rates at such sky-high levels don't just destroy lives, they destroy entire communities.
Baltimore's defense keeps things close but Griese is playing on a sky-high level.
As a leading author on energy, he was among the few who warned about a probable crash of oil prices after the sky-high levels achieved in 2008.
That would pump money into the bank accounts of the region's 3,600 dairy farmers by pushing prices back up to last year's sky-high levels.
His favorite - it was also Thomas Jefferson's - is Esopus Spitzenburg, bright red, with sky-high levels of sugar balanced by floral acidity.
But the news that Waterstone's has dropped its apostrophe has now sent my blood pressure to sky-high levels.