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...other side of the statement of the Fed is a prospect which, far from being immodest, should cause every intelligent person in the country to shudder. If the great engineers of the plans to return the economy to health are wrong, the result will be a ship wreck, a catastrophe so large that it cannot be contained, no matter how much money the government is willing to invest...
...experts who analyze the failures of the economies of the largest countries in the world got a chance, for the first time since the downturn began, to contemplate what would happen if one more leg is kicked off the stool. The stock market responded with a shudder yesterday but at least did not collapse in response to the weekend media blitz about the Swine Flu outbreak. The reaction of the world's markets is likely to be close to panic if this disease becomes widespread and lethal. (See pictures of the swine flu outbreak in Mexico...
...sewn up when he seized control of the country's ruling party in 2007 - but rather his first lady. Zuma, who will almost certainly be confirmed in the coming days, is an unabashed polygamist. That's just one of the personal quirks causing some foreigners to shudder at the prospect of Zuma assuming control of one of Africa's most successful democracies. An uneducated freedom fighter who hoisted himself out of poverty and served a prison sentence alongside Nelson Mandela under South Africa's Apartheid regime, Zuma is heralded as a canny politician whose rough-hewn populism - his unofficial song...
...crisis. In the case of accountants KPMG, he says, "if you have a highly skilled workforce that you don't want to lose, it can make a lot of sense." But the idea of governments getting involved with big subsidies for such schemes on a regular basis makes him shudder. "There will always be jobs that disappear, and in the long run it's not in our interest to keep them," Philpott says. In many places, in the current dire economic circumstances, that's no longer an argument that carries much weight...
...more artful. With more than one million jobs at risk and unemployment rising at a pace rarely seen in American history, letting GM fail would completely compromise any chance of keeping the unemployment rate below 10%. If this figure rises above that number, it will make every American shudder...