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Old 10-09-2008, 12:20 AM  
kane
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Originally Posted by Shaze View Post
understood...all i gotta say is next time your in another country take a few hours every day to read the local newspaper. you'd be surprised to see how much of it is about the US economy, government, politics, etc. and how it will affect not only that country your in, but also other countries.
I guess that is what I based my info on. When I have traveled I always get a local paper and check it out. In most of those cases there was very little info about the US. I will admit during those times it wasn't an election year and there were no big international events going on that we were involved in so maybe it was just that there was a slow news cycle right then.

That said if anyone wonders how the US can effect other countries just look at the current banking crisis. We started having trouble and other countries all of a sudden are feeling the pain. There are many European and world banks that are feeling the crunch now. We live in a global economy for sure.
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