When people asked what fundamentally caused the financial crisis, my answer is not what they expect. I respond with one phrase–the fall of the Berlin Wall. By the early 1990s, after the collapse of the socialist model, emerging market economies such as China, India, Eastern Europe, and the commodity producers wanted to be like the [...]

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