At the moment astrophysicists are trying to figure out whether the universe will collapse in a big crunch, expand at just the right rate to avoid collapse, or expand very rapidly.

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Derivatives created a booming global economy, but they also led to turbulent markets, the credit crunch, the near collapse of the banking system and the economic slump.

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But no, in the interest of full transparency, we had Bernanke warning about how the Fed expected still more negative pressure ahead from the housing collapse, worsening labor markets, a credit crunch that may have still more shoes to drop, and revealing that the Fed was also beginning to worry about the potential for rising inflation.

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