Paulson: Emerging economies' growth wrongly overlooked

Failure to recognize the rapid and persistent growth of emerging economies set the stage for the credit crisis, U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said. Imbalances that showed up in huge account deficits and surpluses depressed interest rates and lured investors into ever-riskier assets as they searched for higher yields, he said.

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