The mounting fiscal crisis in the euro-zone obviously represents the biggest downside to our forecast that the US economy will continue to expand next year, albeit by a pretty modest 1.5%. In a worst case scenario, the risk is that a disorderly collapse of the single currency and multiple sovereign debt defaults could trigger another credit crisis in the US that tips the economy back into recession.
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