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They advised us to close down weak financial institutions and open up the financial markets for foreign banks to buy out troubled Thai finance companies and banks. ..........................
Strangely enough, the US is now doing precisely what it told others not to do, in observing the textbooks of capitalist economics. The collapse of Bear Stearns, the fifth-largest investment banking house in the US, illustrates how the authorities there have swallowed their own words in handling a crisis involving a financial institution. ..................