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Are similarities with 2007 a cause for concern?

Today is the tenth anniversary of the start of the global financial crisis (GFC), which triggered the worst recession since the Great Depression. Some are of the view that history may be about to repeat itself, given similarities in the states of the US economy and financial markets. We aren’t among them.

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