things looking a bit bouncy in the us, page-8

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/financialcrisis/3084129/Financial-crisis-Summit-on-700bn-Wall-Street-bail-out-collapses.html

Leading Democrats, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, reacted so angrily to the last-minute change in Republican demands that Henry Paulson, the Treasury Secretary, got down on one knee to beg them not to disclose how badly the meeting had gone, witnesses said.

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The Washington Post reported that before the meeting broke up President Bush warned of the repercussions if the deal did not pass. "If money isn't loosened up, this sucker could go down," he said, according to one person in the room.