"This is an old-fashioned credit crunch,'" Chris Low, the chief economist at FTN Financial in New York, said in a report today. "This is not a small thing. A credit crunch, when the short-term credit markets seize up, is extraordinarily serious, almost always the precursor of a significant recession.'"

From a Bloomberg article on the spread of US mortgage and credit markets woes to the European banking system.

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