Bush resists European calls for state intervention

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has used the financial crisis and the absence of leadership in the United States during the presidential elections to claim a role for himself as a savior of the financial system.

Despite strong efforts to improve relations with the United States, however, he's unlikely to find much support in America for European leadership of the global capital order, nor for the new brand of capitalism he has been peddling.

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