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With certain American credit institutions labeled &#8220;too big to fail,&#8221; Europe is discovering something worse: &#8220;too big to be saved.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global Financial Crisis. A scary weekend. 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