For a Change, It’s the World That Is Pulling Down the U.S. Economy

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The global economy used to have a simple rule: The U.S. led, everyone else followed. Whether it was high interest rates in 1981, a technology bust in 2001 or a mortgage crisis in 2008, it was a weak U.S. that dragged other countries into recession, not vice versa.