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He contracted tuberculosis at about age 4 and for several years lived alone in a little prefabricated house in the backyard, so the rest of the family would be protected from contagion.
They both suppress consumer spending and hence both contribute to the kind of transnational recessionary contagion that is the main worldwide economic concern at the moment.
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.
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.
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.