Of course, the currency collapse that triggered the slump was itself ample proof of how helpless nations are before the tidal waves of global capital.

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Through her travels in India, she felt helpless, not knowing whether or how to help.

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Families feel helpless, they feel like failures, they think, 'How can we fix it when that person is choosing to do it'?

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