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Insight: Watch out for aftershocks

By Stephen Roach

Published: April 14 2008 17:15 | Last updated: April 14 2008 17:15

Every financial crisis is different, but at some point, they all end. It is hard to know if the end of this one is at hand, but there are grounds to believe the worst of the fire-storm may be burning itself out.

Among the reasons: liquidity injections by central banks, especially the US Federal Reserve, have erred on the side of overkill. Moreover, some of the actions have been unconventional, especially the opening of the Fed’s discount window to investment banks for the first time since the 1930s.

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