These unfolding events lets us show our students just how interconnected the financial system and the global economy are.

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"Our financial system is extremely complex and interconnected, " Bernanke told Congress last week.

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An organization is a tribe, or series of interconnected tribes, and a tribe is a system.

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These "mini-brains" are interconnected, making for a widely distributed nervous system.

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The reasons why the Tour is unlikely to change its current pace-of-play system anytime soon are many and interconnected, but here's a good one to start with: meaningfully speeding up play would, in effect, penalize the Tour's slowest members where it hurts them the most, in their wallets.

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However, he also said that identifying these firms "will not convey a government subsidy, " leaving open an important question--how will the government treat large interconnected firms that could bring down the entire financial system.

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All the same, this report has argued that, on a balance of probabilities, banks that are smaller, more modular and better capitalised are less of a risk to the system than those that are very large and interconnected.

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