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From banking crisis to fiscal crisis?

The measures put in place by governments to support their banking sectors and economies have helped to avert a full-scale financial meltdown and a 1930s-style economic depression. But the full costs of the measures will be felt for years, if not decades, as governments gradually put their finances back together. Indeed, perhaps the biggest danger is that they try to do so too quickly.

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