Sitting in London watching the collapse of Wall Street, the global financial markets and the U.S. presidential race is a useful lesson. It helps to physically be across the ocean to feel how incredible the U.S. power is to the rest of the world. The waves on one side of the Atlantic rippling are felt here on the other side. Lead stories in the news are dated Washington or Wall Street with 10 Downing Street as second, even at a time of great uncertainty in the political system here in Britain. Still, some interesting lessons for progressives in the U.S.

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