WASHINGTON, D.C. -- As I perused Sunday's New York Times best-seller list, I wondered whether it might be topped by the newly published "The World Is Curved: Hidden Dangers to the Global Economy -- The Mortgage Crisis Was Only the Beginning" (Penguin Group (USA), 305pp, $26.95) by David M. Smick, a Washington-based international financial consultant who also is editor and publisher of the quarterly "The International Economy."

I had thought that with almost everyone perso ...

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