credit tsunami

[Benjamin Zimmer]

WOTY candidate?

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CNN, Oct. 23, 2008
http://money.cnn.com/2008/10/23/news/economy/committee_regulatory/
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan told a House committee Thursday
that the nation will emerge from the current credit crisis with a "far sounder
financial system."
"We are in the midst of a once-in-a-century credit tsunami," Greenspan told the
House Oversight and Reform Committee.
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The databases have cites going back to Aug. 2007, from New Zealand:

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2007 _National Business Review_ 10 Aug. (Factiva) Credit tsunami sweeps into NZ.
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2007 _New Zealand Herald_ 27 Aug. (Factiva/Nexis) Over recent years New Zealand
has been hit by a credit tsunami.
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--Ben Zimmer

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