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The Elephant In The Room

One of the big problems with the present economic crisis is that we really do not know how big the problem is. We know that our problems have been caused by the creation, then over-leveraging of debt. But we don’t know how much debt was created,... ...full story at China Vortex

from China Vortex on Tue, Dec 16 2008

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