THE financial fissure in the US deepened last week as regulators worked urgently towards averting a system-wide failure of banks in their ability to give out loans.
The credit crunch became a credit crisis, with Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke warning of an imminent systemic risk of credit seizure.
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