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Sneezing on the world

October 8, 2008

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IT HAS long been said that if the American economy sneezes, the rest of the world gets pneumonia. To escape from this syndrome, some foreign leaders have warned against becoming too intertwined with American financial vehicles and markets. But now that the credit contraction US financial firms have provoked is infecting economies around the world, even foreign leaders hostile to ... (Full article: 413 words)

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