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Although the minutiae vary a lot, banking crisis follows the same story. The precursors to each such story are rising home and equity prices, a rise in capital inflows engineered by foreign investors, a boom in debt and 'just before the doom' an inverted V-shaped path for the economy, with growth first picking up and then faltering. The years just prior to the US sub prime meltdown fit this template remarkably well.

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