That's why the MF Global scandal hurt so much: a financial tsunami that nearly wiped everything away.

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And then, in July, 1997, a financial tsunami hit Asia and one Asian nation after another teetered on collapse.

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But for now they are about as useful in limiting damage from the current financial tsunami as Galveston's seawall was in protecting the city from Hurricane Ike.

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Then their financial tsunami struck in the mid-2000s.

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This IPO was a financial share tsunami.

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My forecast is that when the China bubble bursts it will be like a Tsunami through the global financial world.

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And he said a swift resolution to the severe capital pressures the bond insurers are facing is necessary to stop a "tsunami" of problems in the financial markets.

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In some of the most egregious examples, commentators have used the financial crisis and even the 2011 Japanese eathquake and tsunami as vehicles for promoting fear of cyber attack.

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While Mr. Shirakawa won kudos for keeping Japan's financial system intact in the face of the 2008 financial crisis, and after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami that devastated the country's northeast, he came under fire from politicians who found him reluctant to take drastic steps to beat deflation.

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Even now, Mr Noda's political priority has little to do with the tsunami: it is the consumption tax, which he wants to raise to prevent a financial meltdown.

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