It should also make investing in Japan more attractive for middle-size U.S. companies that find the Japanese market daunting under the current heavy tax, says Mentz.

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Even in the hardest-hit economies such as Spain, Ireland, or Portugal, groups of healthy small- and medium-size businesses and middle-class households exist that constitute good risks.

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Yes, but the middle is not a one-size-fits-all process.

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But it won't do much after the middle of the electorate has hardened against the size and shape of the trillion-dollar plan that Nancy Pelosi and company are promoting.

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But the response from the international community -- from Asia to Africa, from the United States, from Canada, from all of Latin America, from the Caribbean, from Europe, all the way to the Middle East -- this response, thanks to its swiftness, thanks to its size, was commensurate with the disaster.

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Among other things, this anticipated payday is fueled primarily by ever-increasing population growth and an unprecedented explosion in the size of the middle class.

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