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The Clinton administration responds that the risks of a Russian collapse are too high (including the spread of contagion to eastern Europe and Russians resorting to black market sales of nuclear weapons) and failing to provide IMF support would be analogous to canceling insurance while the patient is sick.
But the main reason for "contagion" from Russia to Brazil was psychological: Seeing Russia default on its debt raised fears that Brazil, which also has large budget deficits, might be risky too.
) Yesterday's testimony was epic Chauncey Gardiner, featuring talk of "rain drops," "storm clouds," and "contagion."
The paper observes that the torrid pace of growth has confounded prognosticators, who had widely expected that contagion from the international economic crisis would slow the U.S. expansion.
All of this illustrates the basic economic problem in the world today, made only worse by the information revolution, what the IMF's Michel Camdessus calls in the WP "contagion"--transnational forces of panic that lie beyond the tools of policy makers.