Connectedness: One world united in crisis

 

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September 15, 2008: The financial panic, which began in the United States but quickly bounced across the globe, quelled any doubt that the world's economies are linked inextricably.

What originated as a sub-prime mortgage crisis in the US morphed into a global epidemic. Ironically, one of the leading causes of this was connectedness—the very thing that many had hoped would bring positive change. The economic crisis proves that the potential benefits of connectedness also carry dire consequences.










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