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Brown to Meet With Obama on Economic Crisis

Soros: world's financial system has 'effectively disintegrated'

By Wesley Oliver, Newser Staff

Posted Feb 22, 2009 1:56 PM CST

(Newser) – President Obama will host British PM Gordon Brown at the White House next week for their first meeting since the election, the Independent reports. The leaders enjoy “a special partnership,” the White House says, and they’ll discuss the global recession ahead of... Read full story »

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