21.   The U.S. president met for breakfast with five leaders of Southeast Asian countries, where the crisis began five months ago with a currency collapse in Thailand.

22.   There is no new cost estimate following the currency collapse and fiscal budgetary problems that saw sharp cuts in public sector expenditures.

23.   The most visible victim of the economic crisis spawned by a peso devaluation that turned into a currency collapse is the gigantic World Trade Center.