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Eastern promise holds little hope

The sun has set on America driving the world economy but China will not replace itIn the 1930s there was the Great Depression. The decades after the second world war were dubbed the Great Compression, as the gap between rich and poor narrowed in an era of... ...full story at Guardian Unlimited

from Guardian Unlimited on Mon, Oct 19 2009

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