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US: Alan Walters minute to MT (“A banking crisis in the United States”) [“The balance sheets of US banks … are in a parlous state and cannot be quickly recapitalised”] [declassified 2014]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: PREM19/1654 f108
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Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 2pp
Themes: Economic policy - theory and process, Monetary policy, Public spending & borrowing, Taxation, Foreign policy (USA), British relations with the US