October 15, 2008 –
US housing bubble has burst, bringing with it not only economic slowdown on a global scale, but also a calamity in the financial system that is now intricately linked across boundaries. The calamity reached a peak last week, when panic selling of liquid assets (stocks, corporate and municipal bonds, commodities futures, etc.) assaulted prices across the spectrum.
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