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As the United States' epic financial crisis continues to unfold, one can only wish that US policymakers were half as good at listening to advice from developing countries as they are at giving it. Americans don't seem to realize that their subprime mortgage meltdown has much in common with many previous post-1945 banking crises throughout the world.

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