Why the world economy needs America to avoid the fiscal cliff

Just as during the Cuban Missile crisis of 50 years ago, the world is watching anxiously as the politicians in Washington try to prevent the US economy from plunging off the fiscal cliff. The stakes could never be as high as they were when Khrushchev and Kennedy were on the hot line in October 1962,…

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Why the world economy needs America to avoid the fiscal cliff