In turn this will enable the banks to bail out the very same system that has bailed them out and the merry go round will continue to spin, however giddily.

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On a day when thousands of people around the world are preparing to explain how a web cam works to elderly relatives in a vain attempt to wish them a merry Christmas, some may just go straight to the old-fashioned use of a telephone.

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The merger is partly to blame for this merry-go-round.

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It's moved from all the way over to the pony rides, you see, the merry-go-round, Engine 38 from Wilmington has saved.

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"The merry-go-round will stop, and they are not all going to get financing, " said Eric Thompson, a managing director at Kroll Bond Rating Agency.

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