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British Business Secretary: ‘Biggest Threat’ To World Economy Is U.S. Right-Wing ‘Nutters’ Extremism On Debt Ceiling | Last week, Europeans leaders surprised critics by agreeing to a second rescue package for debt-stricken Greece. To those “irresponsiblepeople who had been “gleefully anticipating the collapse of the euro currency,” British Business Secretary Vince Cable presented the “irony of the situation at the moment.” A former economist, Cable told BBC television yesterday that “the biggest threat to the world financial system comes from a few right-wing nutters in the American congress rather than the euro zone.”

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