Thursday, 9 October 2008, 1:23 pm Column: Toni Solo Globalization and terror: the market fairground by Toni Solo "Unclean!..." Who could they be? Those bedlam-creature politicians hooked together by chains of debt filing across the television screens? A spike in the markets. Jerk. Their faces flush, feverish eyes light up. A plunge in the currency. Flop. The pallor returns, the faces drop. This week's coordinated rate cuts and accumulating announcements of bail-out capital injection plans may do something for the principal actors' demeanour, if little else. Did we really not know default would undo so many? Down goes another finance outfit. "Unclean!...." The statesmen parade from one TV news spot to the next. Unbelievable contagious marketing mumbo jumbo drops via lie-ulcerated lips from unrepentant forked tongues. Too late,...
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