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Worldwide Stock Markets map from WorldTimeZone.com displays the current local status (open, closed or holiday) for the Stock Exchanges globally. The information displayed is based on publically available information gathered from the various stock exchanges around the World. http://www.worldtimezone.com/markets24.php http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_market_opening_times http://www.marketclocks.com/?content=index http://www.2012.worldmarkethours.com/Forex/index.htm . http://s5.postimage.org/9kcdoforb/World_Market_Times.gif . Here's a free world clock: http://www.4shared.com/file/-7P1vKSB/SymmTime2008.html

Financial panics are an integral part of capitalism. So are economic recessions. The system generates them and it becomes stronger because of them. Like forest fires, they are painful when they occur, yet without them, the forest could not survive. They impose discipline, punishing the reckless, rewarding the cautious. They do so imperfectly, of course, as at times the reckless are rewarded and the cautious penalized. Political crises -- as opposed to normal financial panics -- emerge when the reckless appear to be the beneficiaries of the crisis they have caused, while the rest of society bears the burdens of their recklessness. At that point, the crisis ceases to be financial or economic. It becomes political.

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