MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator...
Britain and America and whether it would survive, Bush mentioned Winston Churchill and Tony Blair. He never mentioned Brown, which was a slight.Brown knew who Bush was and was planning to discuss some serious things with him, such as British involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq, increasing the number of permanent Security Council members, World Bank reform, the world financial crisis and ways to overcome it. The problems of subprime house mortgages and the U.S. loan market and the liquidity crisis have already spread to Britain. British banks, following those in the United States do not want to part with their money fearing that the worst is yet to come when the full weight of the American crisis hits London. That makes credits more expensive. The London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR), the chief indicator of the cost of financial resources, has already hit its highest marks since 2001.
Brown tried to persuade American bankers (he had a special meeting with Wall
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