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Bush Warns of Aggressive Economic Regulation

NEW YORK, Nov. 13 -- After presiding over some of the most dramatic market interventions in U.S. history over the past two months, President Bush came to Wall Street on Thursday to urge world leaders not to venture too far down a path of government interference in capitalist economies.

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Global Deals in Works On Eve of G-20 Summit

Nations are close to adopting a series of measures aimed at combating a global recession and laying the groundwork for a broad reconstruction of the international financial system, as world leaders arrive in Washington for a major economic summit this weekend.

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Many Seats, Agendas At Global Roundtable

World leaders will meet in Washington this weekend for a summit on the global financial crisis, the largest gathering of presidents and prime ministers here since NATO's 50th anniversary celebration in 1999. But overshadowing the emergency conference is a leadership vacuum that is fundamentally....

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Discord on Economies In a World Of Trouble

Presidents and prime ministers from major countries around the world will gather in Washington in two weeks to begin heated negotiations over the shape of global financial regulation as they scramble to avoid a deep worldwide recession and restore confidence in markets.

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Bush Reserved as E.U. Leaders Assert Power in Crisis

In France, President Nicolas Sarkozy has loudly proclaimed the need to increase regulation and oversight of financial markets, vowing on Thursday to "refound the global financial system" as part of "an intellectual and moral revolution."

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France's 'Omni-President' Wins Praise for Take-Charge Approach

PARIS, Oct. 17 -- The satirical French newspaper Canard Enchaine has baptized President Nicolas Sarkozy the "omni-president," mocking him as a political whirling dervish who tries to take charge wherever he goes. As Sarkozy prepares to meet President Bush on Saturday evening at Camp David to...

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Sarkozy Calls for Revamping of Capitalist System

BRUSSELS, Oct. 16 -- European leaders on Thursday urged that a pending international summit carry out an urgent overhaul of the world's financial architecture and impose new controls on freewheeling bankers and traders. U.S. officials pledged that all good ideas would get an airing but hinted of...

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G-8 Nations Plan Summit On Global Financial Rules

BRUSSELS, Oct. 15 -- The Group of Eight major industrialized nations announced Wednesday that they will convene a summit to plan changes in the regulation and structure of the world financial industry in hopes of heading off future economic turmoil.

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Brown's Experience Gives Him the Edge

LONDON, Oct. 13 -- Prime Minister Gordon Brown, given up in Britain as political flotsam just weeks ago, has emerged from the global financial crisis as a leader whose ideas are influencing policy from Europe to Washington.

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Financial Crisis Tests Limits of Unity Within the E.U.

PARIS, Oct. 9 -- Three weeks ago, as the Bush administration struggled to salvage collapsing U.S. investment banks, European leaders calmly reassured their people. Banks on this side of the Atlantic are more wisely regulated, they said, and unlikely to succumb to the chaos on Wall Street.

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