Saturday, September 20, 2008

Crisis schmisis - there's money to be made - Telegraph

Crisis schmisis - there's money to be made - Telegraph:

"They don't tend to stay on the floor too long after they've had a kicking. It's a gritty, ruthlessly pragmatic, sometimes - like the man in the Lehman T-shirt - purely self-interested resilience that is rooted in the country's can-do psyche and centuries-old belief in self-help. And rooted, too, in America's belief in itself. Those philosophical ideas of American exceptionalism and the United States's Manifest Destiny - as the Puritans were first to outline it, that God created America as a 'city on the hill' to provide an example to others - smack of chauvinism. But they certainly don't hurt when a country needs to pull through a gloomy patch."

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