U.S. Should Stop Pretending It’s an Emerging Market

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July 25 (Bloomberg) -- One of the biggest shocks of thefinancial crisis was that stable wealthy countries could come toresemble unstable emerging markets in both behavior and marketperception.

When the U.S. asserted control over its financial and autocompanies, the very distinction between developed and emergingnations disappeared.