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The world's leading economic figures took seats at the epicenter of U.S. political power Friday to explore how best to prevent another financial crisis like the credit and mortgage debacles that sent tremors around the globe.

Finance officials from the world's top economic powers have endorsed a plan aimed at preventing another financial crisis like the credit and mortgage debacles that erupted in the United States and quickly sent tremors around the globe.

"Having spent most of the federal surpluses they inherited to fulfill largely foolish campaign promises, the Harper Conservatives showed a few signs yesterday of getting more serious about what the country really needs," The Globe's Jeffrey Simpson wrote today in his column Polit …