The Federal Reserve and the world's other central banks face an impossible choice. On the one hand, they could have tighten the money supply by raising interest rates or other means. That would have risked sending economies near recession into recession--Germany, for example--and slowing growth further in economies that were already seeing signs of slowing […]


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