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Shooting the Rapids: What happens if financial turmoil capsizes the global economy?

A new Economist Intelligence Unit risk report looks at how the credit crunch could play out as it spreads beyond finance into the real economy.

When the US Federal Reserve rescued Bear Stearns, an investment bank, in March it elevated the subprime mortgage meltdown to historic levels, alongside the 1987 Black Monday stock-market crash, the 1992 attack on the British pound, Mexico's 1994 "tequila" crisis and 1997-8's triple whammy—Thailand's currency devaluation, Russia's debt default and the collapse of an iconic US hedge fund. Today's crisis could be much worse. Financial losses from the US mortgage rout and the spreading cr