1.0 link 152622 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/20/white-house-philosophy-st_n_152622.html The global financial system was teetering on the edge of collapse when President Bush and his economics team huddled in the Roosevelt Room of the White House for a briefing that, in the words of one participant, "scared the hell out of everybody."

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