Much like the Clinton administration, the Bush team is banking on trade as an engine of both economic and social progress.

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Particularly disappointing was the institutional-securities (ie, investment banking and trading) division, the engine of the group.

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In order to stabilize its currency, the U.S. needs sound banking and also to keep its economic engine humming.

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It's also Israel's economic engine, home to a thriving high-tech industry and buoyant banking sector that helped the country escape the recent global financial crisis relatively unscathed.

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