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A Fine Economic Mess in the United Kingdom
Shares in the U.S. fell again on Monday, dragging the Dow Jones Industrial Ordinary into bear-industry territory—since hitting a peak early this year, it has now fallen far more than 20 for every cent. The Federal Reserve’s perseverance to stamp out inflation by increasing desire costs is spooking traders, and so is the precipitous drop of the British pound in international-trade marketplaces. On Monday, a senior Federal Reserve formal, Raphael Bostic, took the exceptional phase of criticizing a international ally, declaring the British government’s new bundle of tax cuts, which sparked the offer-off in the pound, “has actually increased uncertainty.” Spare a assumed, if you will, for patriotic Brits. Getting…