They would inevitably lead to a world-shaking financial crisis in the US, and ultimately much higher taxes and draconian cuts in spending.

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What is certain is that if MHI falters (and here I am echoing the analysis of the Eclectica Fund that I criticized in an earlier post), it will be a devastating and probably world-shaking blow.

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Japan's stock market continued to rise on a wave of enthusiasm for the Bank of Japan's aggressive new approach to shaking the world's third-largest economy out of its two decade slump.

NPR: Asia Stocks Rise On Heels Of New Dow Record High

Symyx is shaking up the slow-moving world of chemicals by applying tools borrowed from the drug industry: miniaturization and high-speed automation.

FORBES: Upstart Symyx is shaking up the stodgy chemicals industry.

So, late on election night, the suits are up in their suites, brooding and trying to look confident, waiting for the Glocca Morra vote to roll in and save them, and Jesse is strutting tall turkey at his campaign headquarters at the racetrack, looking like everyone's nightmare of a brother-in-law, shaking his big fist, yelling, "We shocked the world!"

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