They are afraid of the renewed fighting that could follow a sudden failure of the deal, or that could erupt as a means to scupper it.

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In fact, the two biggest economic disasters of the 20th century--the Great Depression in the 1930s and the Great Inflation of the 1970s--were both the result of catastrophic government mistakes, not a sudden failure of free-market capitalism.

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With financial conditions already quite fragile, the sudden, unanticipated failure of Bear Stearns would have led to a sharp unwinding of positions in those markets that could have severely shaken the confidence of market participants.

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The sudden increase in jobs also underline the failure of easy money to stimulate growth.

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