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A second front-page story says the White House is concerned, but thinks it unlikely, that Japan's economy could collapse the way Thailand's did.
Though almost no one at 9:50 on September 11 was contemplating an imminent total collapse of the TwinTowers, many first responders and civilians were contemplating the possibility of imminent additional terrorist attacks throughout New York City.
Another "what's wrong with conservatives" cover package blames the conservative collapse in Britain, France, and the United States on the clever but vacuous politics of the left.
But if it turns out that Chirac's political debacle is the beginning of a much larger disaster--the collapse of the whole vision of European glory that has obsessed France for so long--we can be sure of one thing: The French will blame it all on someone else.
The scope of global "contagion"--the rapid spread of the crisis to countries with no real economic links to the original victim--convinced me that IMF critics such as Jeffrey Sachs were right in insisting that this was less a matter of economic fundamentals than it was a case of self-fulfilling prophecy, of market panic that, by causing a collapse of the real economy, ends up validating itself.