If foreigners ever flee the dollar, America will face the twin nightmares that haunt emerging countries in a financial collapse: simultaneous banking and currency crises.

假如外国人放弃美元，美国则将面临双重噩梦：即同时引发银行和货币危机。

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The conference, also known as GCARD, follows the twin crises of soaring food prices in poor countries and the global recession.

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The more important events, however, were the twin crises confronting the oil giant Royal Dutch Shell.

FORBES: Part I in a CSR Series: Corporate Citizenship in a Global Economy

Meanwhile, the report by Punjab's government encourages farmers to alleviate the twin crises of environmental degradation and falling productivity by returning to traditional practices.

ECONOMIST: Punjabis are poisoning themselves

That's what Federal Reserve watchers are wondering today after it lowered its benchmark interest rate to 2% from 2.25%--its seventh cut since the twin credit and mortgage crises began to unravel last summer.

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