‘When the United States sneezes, the rest of the world, catches a cold’ is a well-worn phrase regularly trotted out by business writers when growing signs of trouble ahead begin to make investors nervous.
It’s a line that also captures the outsize impact the US economy has on the global economy. Where the country goes, so goes the rest of the world.
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Andrew Patterson is Newsroom’s Markets Editor and has worked for…
